found: Arabgir, 2020:volume 1, page 40 (Arabgir Sancağı; a sancak [sub-province] of the eyalet [province] of Diyarbekir, which was formed after [Turkish] Kurdistan came under Ottoman control after the battle of Chaldiran in 1514)
found: T.C. Malatya Valiliği [Governorate of Malatya of the Republic of Turkey] website, December 2, 2021(Arapgir; in 1518 Arapgir was one of 12 sancaks [sub-provinces] of the eyalet [province] of Diyarbakır; the ilçe [district] became a sancak merkezi [center of a subprovince] attached to the Sivas Valiliği [Governorate of Sivas] in the time of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent; in 1834 it was attached to the sub-province of Diyarbakır and in 1847 to the sub-province of Mamuret-ül Aziz (Elazığ); in the Turkish government yearbook of 1927-1928 Arapgir had become a kaza [district] attached to Malatya) - http://www.malatya.gov.tr/arapgir found: GEOnet, December 2, 2021(Arapgir İlçesi; Arapgir (short); second-order administrative division (ADM2); first-order administrative division Malatya; 39° 03ʹ 01ʺ N, 038° 30ʹ 09ʺ E)
found: Osmanlı yer adları [Ottoman place names], PDF file via Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı website, December 2, 2021(Arapgir; Bizs [Byzantine Greek] Arabrekes; Erm. [Armenian] Aru Ergir; عربگير = Arapgir [or Arabgir]; a sancak [subprovince] from 1515 to 1855, attached variously to the provinces of Diyarbakır, Rum, Sivas, and Harput; a kaza from 1856 to 1926, attached variously to the provinces of Harput, Diyarbakır, Mamûretülaziz, Malatya, and Elazığ) - https://www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/varliklar/dosyalar/eskisiteden/yayinlar/genel-mudurluk-yayinlar/osmanli_yer_adlari.pdf found: 1298 (1881 M) tarihli Maʼmuretü'l-Aziz Vilâyet sâlnâmesi, 2001:page 60, first group (Arabgir Kazası) page 61, second group (عربکر قضاسى = Arabgir Kazası [or Arapgir Kazası; or Arapkir Kazası; or Arabkir Kazası]
found: Türk ansiklopedis, 1946(Arapkir İlçesi; attached to the province of Malatya)
