page_title: Six vilayets
section_title: Ethnic groups
hierarchical_section_title: Six vilayets / Population / Ethnic groups
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Document de l'empire Ottoman d'archive concernant la recensement officiel de 1914. La première colonne est pour les musulmanes. Population totale: 14.155.755**. Deuxième colonne: les grecs. La troisième colonne: les arméniens. Population totale: 1.219.323 English: The Ottoman Empire archive document regarding the official census of 1914. first column "musulman" (muslims) total pop: 14,155,755**, second "grecs" (Greeks), third "arménien" (Armenians) total pop: 1,219,323
context_page_description: The Six vilayets or Six provinces or the Six Armenian vilayets were the Armenian-populated vilayets of the Ottoman Empire:
  Van
  Erzurum
  Mamuretülaziz
  Bitlis
  Diyarbekir
  Sivas
context_section_description: Statistical analysis of the racial elements in the Ottoman provinces by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, 1912
  Note: The analysis excludes certain portions of these provinces where Armenians are only a minor element. These portions are as follows: Hakkiari, in the Vilayet of Van; the south of Sairt, in the Vilayet of Bitlis; the south of the Vilayet of Diyarbekir; the south of Malatia, in the Vilayet of Mamuretülaziz; the north-west and west of the Vilayet of Sivas.
  Ottoman official population statistics, 1914
  Note: The Ottoman population statistics doesn't give information for separate Muslim ethnic groups such as the Turks, Kurds, Circassians, etc.
  The official Ottoman population statistics of 1914 that were based on an earlier census underestimated the number of ethnic minorities, including the number of Armenians. The Ottoman figures didn't define any ethnic groups, only religious ones. So the “Armenian” population as counted by the authorities only tallied ethnic Armenians who were also adherents of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Ethnic Armenians who professed the Muslim faith, which by that time had grown in number (and are the ancestors of most of the modern population of Muslim “Turks” of these regions after their acculturation to a Turkish ethnic identity), were counted only as “Muslims” (not as Armenian Muslims or Armenians), while Armenian Protestants, just as Pontic Greeks, Caucasus Greeks, and Laz, were counted as "others".
caption: Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire according to the 1914 official population statistics.
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