%0 Journal Article %T Determinations on Demography of Erzurum during the World War I %A Yakup KARATA£¿ %J - %D 2018 %X Wars and especially world wars are very destructive processes for societies and institutions. Exclusively World War I, as one of examples of global alliance systems had fought, caused widely calamities those haven¡¯t seen before in world history. Magnitude of this important event which has accepted as a landmark in terms of policy, demography, urbanism and settlements, would be more clear with numericals of migrations and deceases. Lots of quantitative evaluations had enlighten this point till now. Handling the population and migration process is an obligation to determine the numerical of losses. During the occupations and invasions, the invaders had destroyed or carried the registers of population and deeds to their own countries near them. In this paper some determinations and evaluations took place under the light of archival records of population of Province of Erzurum during the World War I. Forasmuch the province was geographically the biggest part of Eastern Anatolia had missed lots of people and urban values under the invasion with its districts and the other subunits a hundred years ago. Hereby population movements in Erzurum will be analysed by the records on an important debate field just as ¡°population¡± -if Armenian claims also be considered-. Demographic structure of Erzurum before and after the war will be handled by acquired data from the funds of Personal Records, Telegraph and Police Headquarters of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ottoman Archive. As a result, destructive effects of the war to a specific place such as Erzurum will be illuminated %K I. D¨¹nya Sava£¿£¿ %K Erzurum Vilayeti %K N¨¹fus ve Demografi %K Ar£¿iv Kay£¿tlar£¿ %U http://dergipark.org.tr/curesosc/issue/37199/389964