Demographics over time · Van vilayet · share of population + headcount Open full view ↗
  • Armenian
  • Kurdish
0%25%50%75%100%197kArmenianKurdish197k68k×182819121927

Baseline place context

Van vilayet is recorded as a region. Alternate names and historical labels: Vaspurakan (arm). Includes Van, Başkale, Hakkari sancaks.. Coordinates are 38.6, 43.5.

Seeded demographic observations include 1912 Armenian 28%; 1914 Armenian 18%; 1914 Kurdish 50%; 1927 Kurdish 78%. No event relation is attached yet.

This baseline note identifies why the place exists in the atlas and should be replaced by a richer treatment of settlement, administrative history, demographic change, and connected events. editorial

YearPeopleSharePopulationSource
1828Armenian35%, Kemal H. Karpat
1828Kurdish50%, Kemal H. Karpat
1912Armenian28%197,000Patriarch Maghakia Ormanian (compiled)
1914Kurdish50%, Kemal H. Karpat
1914Armenian18%67,792Kemal H. Karpat
1927Kurdish78%, Raymond Kévorkian
1927Armenian0%0Raymond Kévorkian