Safavid Diyarbakr

Velāyat-e Diyarbakr
1504–1514/1517
Short time after 1623–1624
Status Province of the Safavid Empire
Capital Diyarbakr (Diyarbakır)
Common languages Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian
Government Velayat
hakem  
Succeeded by
Diyarbekir Eyalet
Today part of  Turkey

The province of Diyarbakr (Persian: ولایت دیاربکر‎, translit. Velāyat-e Diārbakr) was a short-lived velayat (province) of the Safavid Empire located in the area of present-day Turkey. Diyarbakr (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).

Sources

  • 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.
  • Faroqhi, Suraiya (2009). Frisch, Shelley, ed. The Ottoman Empire: A Short History. Markus Wiener Publishers. p. 91. ISBN 978-1558764491.
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