Kurtalan ( Kurdish : Misircê , Armenian : ԽԱՐԶԱՆ , romanized : Ğarzan or ՀԱՐԶԱՆ , Kharzan ) is a municipality in the Kurtalan District of Siirt Province in Turkey . It was called Garzan until 1938 when it was renamed. The municipality is populated by Kurds of the Pencenarî tribe and had a population of 36,273 in 2021.
4-500: According to Vital Cuinet , the kaza of Garzan had a population of 13,000 in 1891, including 8,800 Muslims, 3,600 Armenians, and others 600. Muslims were mostly Kurds. Syriac Catholic Church also lived in the area. With the exception of a few dozen, all Armenians were massacred during the Armenian genocide . The fate of Syriacs is unknown. In the local elections of 2019 Baran Akgül was elected as Mayor. In Kurtalan railway station
8-628: Is the eastern terminus of the Southern Kurtalan Express between Ankara and Kurtalan operated by TCDD Taşımacılık . This article about a Southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey location is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vital Cuinet Vital-Casimir Cuinet , commonly known as Vital Cuinet (December 19, 1833 in Longeville – September 6, 1896 in Constantinople , now Istanbul )
12-517: Was a French geographer and orientalist. He is best known for his work La Turquie d'Asie, géographie administrative: statistique, descriptive et raisonnée de chaque province de l'Asie Mineure , which addresses the socio-economic situation of the Ottoman Empire in Asia. His figures were also used to establish the ability of the Ottoman Empire to pay its debts, Cuinet eager to get precise numbers
16-459: Was finally forced to conclude that it was not possible to get them, he gives two main reasons for this. An example often referred by the critics, was Cuinet's statistics drawn from Ottoman authority numbers and information that they provided him regarding the Vilayet of Aleppo (classified in those works as the sandjak of Marash). The number is an impossible 4,300. While only in the city of Marash,
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