page_title: Hakkari
section_title: Direct Ottoman control
hierarchical_section_title: Hakkari / History / Direct Ottoman control
caption_attribution_description: English: The Armenian population in historical Armenian regions in the year 1896. The Armenian population in represented in the coloured areas, as well as in the red Arabic numbers, indicating their exact percentage.
context_page_description: Hakkari, was a historical mountainous region lying to the south of Lake Van, encompassing parts of the modern provinces of Hakkâri, Şırnak, Van in Turkey and Dohuk in Iraq. During the late Ottoman Empire it was a sanjak within the old Vilayet of Van.
context_section_description: Although the region was nominally under Ottoman control since the 16th century, it was in reality administered by its Assyrian and Kurdish inhabitants and their lords. The situation changed after the Badr Khans rule and the Tanzimat reforms as the Ottomans now were able to extend their full control unopposed, and in 1868 the Sanjak of Hakkari was created.
caption: The checkered Christian districts southeast of Lake Van is where the Assyrians of Hakkari lived, while the Christian districts in Blue designate where Armenians lived
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