:Arapgir

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.Kévorkian, Raymond H. and Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du génocide. Paris: Editions d’art et d’histoire, 1992, p. 375.

There are 63 neighbourhoods in Arapgir District:[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

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• 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

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Arapgir has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsa), transitioning to a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa){{Cite journal |title=Table 1 Overview of the Köppen-Geiger climate classes including the defining criteria. |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02549-6/tables/1 |journal=Nature: Scientific Data |language=en}} with hot, dry summers and cold, frequently snowy winters.{{Cite web |title=Kar Örtülü Gün Sayısı |url=https://www.mgm.gov.tr/FILES/resmi-istatistikler/parametreAnalizi/2022-ortalama-kar-ortulu.pdf |website=MGM}}{{Weather box

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| 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

| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm

| Jan precipitation days = 9.6

| Feb precipitation days = 8.7

| Mar precipitation days = 9.1

| Apr precipitation days = 9.4

| May precipitation days = 9.0

| Jun precipitation days = 3.4

| Jul precipitation days = 2.0

| Aug precipitation days = 1.8

| Sep precipitation days = 2.6

| Oct precipitation days = 5.8

| Nov precipitation days = 6.8

| Dec precipitation days = 9.6

| year precipitation days = 77.8

| 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

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Arapgir town is populated by Kurds.{{Cite book|title=Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey|year=1989|editor-last=Peter Alfred|editor-first=Andrews|pages=338|editor-last2=Benninghaus|editor-first2=Rüdiger}} 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.{{Cite journal|last=Olcay|first=Cem Bircan|date=2014|title=Malatya Arapgir Ağzı (İnceleme - Metinler - Sözlük)|url=http://www.openaccess.hacettepe.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11655/1465/0ed108a9-e3de-404f-b1a1-0b000c5bec57.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n|journal=Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı|page=12|language=tr}}

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{{Cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Peter|title=Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey: Supplement and Index|last2=Benninghaus|first2=Rüdiger|year=2002|isbn=9783895002298|pages=96}}{{Cite web|title=Günyüzü Köyü|url=http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/gunyuzu-koyu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143759/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/gunyuzu-koyu|archive-date=17 December 2016|access-date=13 October 2021|language=tr}}{{Cite web|title=Düzce Köyü|url=http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/duzce-koyu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143713/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/duzce-koyu|archive-date=17 December 2016|access-date=13 October 2021}}{{Cite news|date=2020|title=Eski Arapgir Köy|language=tr|work=Tarih Gezisi|url=http://tarihgezisi.com/sehirler-ve-ilceleri/eski-arapgir-koyu-arapgir-malatya/|access-date=13 October 2021}}{{Cite journal|last=Ertürk|first=Kenan|date=2000|title=Malatya'nın etnik yapısının siyasi hayata etkileri|journal=|language=tr|pages=131}}{{Cite web|title=Kayakesen Köyü|url=http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/kayakesen-koyu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143859/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/kayakesen-koyu|archive-date=17 December 2016|access-date=13 October 2021}}
• Kurdish: Bostancık, Çakırsu, Deregezen, Esikli, Gebeli, Kaynak, Kazanç, Kılıçlı, Konducak, Pacalı, Pirali, Şağıluşağı, Sinikli, Sipahiuşağı, Sugeçti, Tarhan, Ulaçlı, Yaylacık, Yazılı{{Cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Peter|title=Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey: Supplement and Index|last2=Benninghaus|first2=Rüdiger|year=2002|isbn=9783895002298|pages=121}}{{Cite thesis|last=Çiplak|date=2011|title=Music and Identity in Atma tribe|url=https://polen.itu.edu.tr/handle/11527/12589|journal=ITU Institute of Social Sciences|publisher=Istanbul Technical University|pages=34}}{{Cite web|title=Tarhan Köyü|url=http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/tarhan-koyu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217144039/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/tarhan-koyu|archive-date=17 December 2016|access-date=13 October 2021}}{{Cite web|title=Yaylacık Köyü|url=http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/yaylacik-koyu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217144059/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/yaylacik-koyu|archive-date=17 December 2016|access-date=13 October 2021}}
• Kurdish and Turkish: Suçeyin, Taşdelen

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=w61NeZ6l2kQC&dq=arapkir&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html limited preview] {{cite book | title = Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution| url = https://archive.org/details/ottomanmanufactu0000quat| url-access = registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ottomanmanufactu0000quat/page/86 86–99] |author= Donald Quataert|publisher=Cambridge University| year= 1993| isbn = 9780521420174|display-authors=etal}} 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.{{cite book | title = Osmanlı idaresinde Ermeniler [Armenians in the Ottoman Administration]|author= Nejat Göyünç|publisher=Gültepe Yayn. Ankara| year= 1983|language=tr}}{{cite web | url = http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/1047513/index.pdf | title = The Armenian question according to Takvim-i Vekayi (1914-1918) |author=Pınar Kundil|publisher=Middle East Technical University, Ankara| accessdate=1 May 2017}} 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,Hewsen, Robert H., "Golden Plain: The Historical Geography of Tsopk/Kharpert," in Armenian Tsopk/Kharpert, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002, p. 49. 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.Kévorkian and Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman, pp. 375-76. After the 1915 Armenian genocide, most of the Armenian population of Arapgir was killed or deported.Raymond Kévorkian. The Armenian Genocide: A History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011), pp. 402-407.

File:Arapgir church.png.]]

{{See also|Cathedral of Arapgir}}

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.Kévorkian and Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman, p. 376.

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.

• 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)

• Arabkir District (Yerevan)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070205220945/http://www.malatya.gov.tr/ilceler/arapgir.HTM Arapgir Towns Official Web Page] {{in lang|tr}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD8FNCVezBY Arapgir Town Video]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201161722/http://www.arapgirnazarhotel.com/ Arapgir Nazar Hotel]

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