page_title: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
section_title: Dissolution, 1908–18
hierarchical_section_title: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire / Western Armenia, 1829–1918 / Dissolution, 1908–18
caption_attribution_description: English: Turkey in Asia, 1909 Publication Info: New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909; from The New Encyclopedic Atlas and Gazetteer of the World Date: 1903 Scale: 1:7,603,200
context_page_description: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire mostly belonged to either the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Catholic Church. They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all Ottoman citizens before the law.
context_section_description: The Second Constitutional Era of the Empire began shortly after Sultan Abdülhamid II restored the constitutional monarchy after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. The period established many political groups. A series of elections during this period resulted in the gradual ascendance of the Committee of Union and Progress's ("CUP") domination in politics. This period also marked the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
caption: 6 Armenian provinces of Western Armenia. Patten, William and J.E. Homas, Turkey in Asia, 1903.
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