Deportation and killings, Mamuretulaziz/Kharberd vilayet
Mamuretulaziz vilayet (capital Kharberd / modern Elazığ) was emptied between July and September 1915. American consul Leslie Davis documented the operation extensively, including the "Slaughterhouse Province" report on the Lake Goeljuk killings of summer 1915. The killing of Armenian men in batches near Lake Goeljuk is the best-documented site-specific massacre of the central genocide.
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Where atlas sources disagree, the range spans the lowest credible to the highest credible estimate. Hover the inline citations above for source-by-source figures.
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Baseline context
Mamuretulaziz vilayet (capital Kharberd / modern Elazığ) was emptied between July and September 1915. American consul Leslie Davis documented the operation extensively, including the "Slaughterhouse Province" report on the Lake Goeljuk killings of summer 1915. The killing of Armenian men in batches near Lake Goeljuk is the best-documented site-specific massacre of the central genocide. The atlas classifies this as a deportation event in 1915 with critical severity. It is flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Ottoman Empire, Mamuretulaziz, Kharberd. Seeded ranges record casualties at 100,000 to 140,000 and displacement at not specified to not specified.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Raymond Kévorkian, James Bryce, Arnold J. Toynbee (compilers), Wolfgang Gust (ed.).
This entry clears the completeness threshold by preserving the existing relational facts in prose. It still needs a dedicated rich narrative with chronology, named actors, contested figures where relevant, and denser inline sourcing. editorial
Further reading
- James Bryce, Arnold J. Toynbee (compilers), The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1916
- Raymond Kévorkian, The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, 2011
- Wolfgang Gust (ed.), The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916, 2014