Nazimiye

Nazimiye

The settlement, formerly known as Kızılkilise, came under Ottoman rule after the Battle of Çaldıran in 1514, and was first annexed to the Çemişgezek Sanjak and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak. In the census of the period 1521-1523, the settlement had village status under the name Kızılkilise, and at that time, there were 23 households in the settlement where members of the Dersimlü tribe lived. The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847, was elevated to district status in 1876. In the records of 1880, the settlement was seen as one of the districts of Mazgirt Sanjak of Dersim Province, but when Dersim Province was abolished in 1892, it maintained its status as a district, this time under Dersim Sanjak. In 1894, 228 people, 6 of whom were Armenians, lived in the settlement with 24 households, the rest were Muslims. . In 1911, the request to change the name of the settlement to Mehmet Nazım Efendi, the grandson of Mehmed V, who was born in 1910, was deemed appropriate in the same year, and it was named Nazımiye. Nazımiye, which was separated from Erzincan on April 14, 1929 and connected to Elazığ, started to be administered from Tunceli since 1947.