Mutki

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Mutki formerly Motkan ( before 1941 Miritağ ) is the name of a district town and a district in the Turkish province of Bitlis. Mutki is located in the west of the province on the border with Muş and Batman. The city has 2,147, the county 34,240 inhabitants ( 2011).

The place shares the long history of the region and was under the rule of various empires and dynasties. Since 1514 Mutki was Ottoman. The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi visited the area in 1665 and reported that the root of the Mutki dominated the area, but these were under the prince of Bitlis. The Mutki to have been so powerful that they could make the prince 70,000 soldiers. During the First World War, Russian troops conquered the area and penetrated to Bitlis before. The inhabitants Bitlis ' fled to Mutki. After the retreat of the Russians and the demise of the Ottoman Mutki belonged since 1923 to the Republic of Turkey.

County

With an administrative reform in 1867 was part of the vilayet of Erzerum Mutki. The administrative center was the town of Rabat, which was replaced in 1883 by the village Açıkalan. The center has been postponed several times until it since 1941 the village Miritağ finally - today Mutki - is. The term comes from the Iranian Mutki Motkan and means " unused ground."