The province of Diyarbakr (Persian: ولایت دیاربکر, romanized: Velāyat-e Diārbakr) was a short-lived province of the Safavid Empire located in the area of present-day Turkey. Amida (Medieval Diyarbakır) was the provincial capital, and the seat of the Safavid governors. It had the following administrative jurisdictions; Orfah (Urfa), Jazireh (Cizre), Kharput (Elazığ), Mardin, Sert (Siirt), and Hesn Keyfeh (Hasankeyf).
Velāyat-e Diyarbakr | |||||||
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| 1504–1514/1517 | |||||||
| Status | Province of the Safavid Empire | ||||||
| Capital | Amida (Diyarbakır) | ||||||
| Common languages | Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian | ||||||
| Government | Province | ||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||
Sources
edit- Faroqhi, Suraiya (2009). Frisch, Shelley (ed.). The Ottoman Empire: A Short History. Markus Wiener Publishers. p. 91. ISBN 978-1558764491.
- Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. pp. 180, 209, 252. ISBN 978-1933823232.
- Kia, Mehrdad (2017). The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (Vol. 1). ABC-CLIO. p. 101. ISBN 978-1610693899.