Arapgir

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Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Arapgir
image_map	Malatya location Arapgir.png
map_caption	Map showing Arapgir District in Malatya Province
coordinates
province	Malatya
leader_party	CHP
leader_name	Haluk Cömertoğlu
area_total_km2	987
population_footnotes
population_total	9964
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	44800
area_code	0422
website
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It is situated at the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams. Arapgir is connected with Sivas by a chaussée, prolonged to the Euphrates river. The present town was built in the mid-19th century, but about 2 miles north-east is the old town, now called Eskişehir ("old city" in Turkish).

History

This territory is a part of historical Lesser Armenia. The old town of Arapgir was founded by the Armenian King Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni in 1021, who had exchanged his kingdom of Vaspurakan for estates in the central lands of the Byzantine Empire.

Composition

There are 63 neighbourhoods in Arapgir District:

Aktaş
Alıçlı
Aşağıçörenge
Aşağıulupınar
Aşağıyenice
Berenge
Boğazlı
Bostancık
Budak
Çakırsu
Çarşı
Çaybaşı
Çiğnir
Çimen
Çobanlı
Cömertli
Deregezen
Düzce
Esikli
Eskiarapkir
Eynir
Gebeli
Göz
Gözeli
Günyüzü
Hezenek
Hocaali
Kayakesen
Kaynak
Kazanç
Kılıçlı
Konducak
Koru
Köseoğlu
Mehmet Akif
Meşeli
Onar
Ormansırtı
Osmanpaşa
Pacalı
Pirali
Şağıluşağı
Sekizsu
Selamlı
Serge
Şıhlar
Sinikli
Sipahiuşağı
Suçeyin
Sugeçti
Tarhan
Taşdelen
Taşdibek
Ulaçlı
Yaylacık
Yazılı
Yeni
Yeşilyayla
Yukarı Ulupınar
Yukarı Yenice
Yukarıçörenge
Yukarıyabanlı
Zohrap

Climate

Arapgir has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsa), transitioning to a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) with hot, dry summers and cold, frequently snowy winters.{{Weather box | width = auto | collapsed = yes | metric first = yes | single line = yes | location = Arapgir (1991–2020) | Jan high C = 2.7 | Feb high C = 4.4 | Mar high C = 10.1 | Apr high C = 16.3 | May high C = 21.7 | Jun high C = 27.7 | Jul high C = 32.4 | Aug high C = 33.0 | Sep high C = 28.1 | Oct high C = 20.8 | Nov high C = 11.9 | Dec high C = 5.0 | year high C = 17.9 | Jan mean C = -0.8 | Feb mean C = 0.4 | Mar mean C = 5.4 | Apr mean C = 11.0 | May mean C = 16.1 | Jun mean C = 21.6 | Jul mean C = 25.7 | Aug mean C = 26.2 | Sep mean C = 21.6 | Oct mean C = 15.0 | Nov mean C = 7.2 | Dec mean C = 1.4 | year mean C = 12.6 | Jan low C = -3.4 | Feb low C = -2.5 | Mar low C = 1.8 | Apr low C = 6.7 | May low C = 11.3 | Jun low C = 16.2 | Jul low C = 20.1 | Aug low C = 20.7 | Sep low C = 16.2 | Oct low C = 10.5 | Nov low C = 3.7 | Dec low C = -1.2 | year low C = 8.4 | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 100.67 | Feb precipitation mm = 86.87 | Mar precipitation mm = 79.16 | Apr precipitation mm = 80.47 | May precipitation mm = 66.4 | Jun precipitation mm = 16.8 | Jul precipitation mm = 3.18 | Aug precipitation mm = 2.13 | Sep precipitation mm = 13.08 | Oct precipitation mm = 49.2 | Nov precipitation mm = 75.21 | Dec precipitation mm = 97.59 | year precipitation mm = 670.76

| Jan humidity = 69.2 | Feb humidity = 65.2 | Mar humidity = 56.5 | Apr humidity = 51.8 | May humidity = 48.5 | Jun humidity = 37.1 | Jul humidity = 30.7 | Aug humidity = 29.9 | Sep humidity = 33.5 | Oct humidity = 48.3 | Nov humidity = 58.3 | Dec humidity = 70.7 | year humidity = 50.0 | source = NOAA{{cite web |url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Turkiye/CSV/Arapgir_17764.csv |title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020 — Arapgir |publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date = January 13, 2024}}

Demographics

Arapgir town is populated by Kurds. In descending order of population, the district is populated by Turks, Kurds, and Armenians. Armenians used to be the second largest ethnic group after Turks, constituting one third of the population, but most of the population was wiped out during the Armenian genocide.

Ethnic composition of the villages in Arapgir District:

Turkish: Aktaş, Alıçlı, Boğazlı, Budak, Çiğnir, Çimen, Düzce, Eski Arapgir, Eynir, Gözeli, Günyüzü, Kayakesen, Koruköy, Onar, Ormansırtı, Selamlı, Yeşilyayla, Yukarı Yabanlı
Kurdish: Bostancık, Çakırsu, Deregezen, Esikli, Gebeli, Kaynak, Kazanç, Kılıçlı, Konducak, Pacalı, Pirali, Şağıluşağı, Sinikli, Sipahiuşağı, Sugeçti, Tarhan, Ulaçlı, Yaylacık, Yazılı
Kurdish and Turkish: Suçeyin, Taşdelen

History

According to Donald Quataert, Arapgir in the 1880s was made up of 4,802 Muslim and 1,200 Armenian households, with a total population of about 29,000 persons. According to a METU study citing Nejat Göyünç, the city population was about 20,000 in 1911, of which more than half of the population was Armenian Christians and the rest were Muslim. Differing sources present differing pictures for the respective shares of ethnicities within the weavers' community. The Armenian population is reported to have suffered severely during the Hamidian massacres of 1895, although, in this regard, Donald Quataert notes, with textile exports back to normal levels a year after the turmoil, in 1896, either all weavers were Muslims after all, or few Armenian weavers were killed, displaced or disrupted during the troubles.

On the eve of World War I, there were about 9,523 Armenians (1,300 houses) and 6,774 Turks living in Arapgir. After the 1915 Armenian genocide, most of the Armenian population of Arapgir was killed or deported.

Churches, mosques and other buildings

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Before the Armenian genocide Arapgir had seven Armenian Apostolic churches: Surp Astvadzadzin (Holy Mother of God) Church, not to be confused with the cathedral, Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Illuminator) Church, Surp Kevork Church, Surp Hagob Church, Surp Nshan Church, Surp Pilibos Arakel (St. Philip the Apostle) Church, Surp Sarkis Church, There were, also, one Catholic Surp Prgich (Holy Saviors) Church and one Protestant Cuğran Church. There were also more than 10 schools in the town. Little is left of pre-war Arapgir, but there are still some old houses that have survived, which are Armenian origin. The town also contains the ruins of a castle, several Seljuk mosques, old cemetery and silver mines.

People from Arapgir

Abdullah Cevdet
Aram Achekbashian (1867–1915), Hnchak politician
Cemal Azmi (1868–1922), Ottoman politician
Vahagn Davtyan, (1922–1996), an Armenian writer
Khajag Barsamian, born 1951, the primate of Diocese of Armenian Church of Eastern America
Zehra Bilir (1913–2007), born Eliz Surhantakyan, Turkish folk singer of Armenian origin, known as "Türkü Ana" (Mother of Folk Songs)

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