Harpoot

Harpoot also called Harput, Karpoot, Kharpert was an largely Armenian populated region in Western Armenia. Today it is mostly made up of the area of Elazığ. Kharput is often attributed to belonging to the old Armenian province of Sophene.

The name Kharput is of Armenian origin, it comes from the Armenian Kharberd or Karberd which contains the word berd meaning castle.

Harput was an ancient Urartu fortress town which Armenians established as their capital city in the 10th century, until taken by the Ottomans in 1515.

Rev. Dr. Herman N. Barnum account of Harpoot in the 1800s,

Two eyewitnesses wrote about reports of genocide in Harpoot. One of them being Dr. Henry H. Riggs, the congregational minister and ABCFM missionary who had been the head of Euphrates College, a local college founded and directed by American missionaries for mostly the Armenian community in the region. His report was documented and sent over to the United States, and then published under Days of Tragedy in Armenia, 1997. The second eyewitness was Leslie A. Davis, an American consul at Harpoot from 1914 to 1917.

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