Tekman

Tekman lies on a high plateau south of Erzurum, between the headwaters of the Araks and the upper Murat. The surrounding mountains and pastures form part of the eastern Anatolian uplands. Ottoman registers place Tekman on the eastern frontier after the campaigns of Selim I; by 1540 it was recorded as a district of Erzurum, and in 1554 it appeared as a sancak under a local governor named Zeynel Bey.