Nazımiye
Its old name
is Kızıl Kilise. The settlement, which came under Ottoman rule after the Battle
of Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, was first connected to the Çemişgezek Sanjak
and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak. In the census of the period of 1521-1523, the
settlement was in the status of a village with the name Kızıl Kilise, and there
were 23 households in the settlement where the members of the Dersim tribe
lived at that time.The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847,
rose to the status of an accident in 1876. In the records of 1880, the
settlement was seen as one of the districts of Mazgirt Sanjak of Dersim
Vilayet, but when the Dersim Province was abolished in 1892, this time it
continued to be a district under the Dersim Sanjak.In 1894, there were 228
people living in the settlement, which had 24 households, of which 6 were
Armenians and the rest were Muslims. In 1911, the name of the settlement to be
changed in honor of Mehmet Nazım Efendi, the grandson of the Ottoman Sultan
Mehmed V, who was born in 1910, was approved in the same year, and it was
renamed Nazımiye. Nazımiye, which was affiliated to Elazığ during World War I,
began to be administered from Tunceli in 1947.
