With only four exceptions of consequence, the massacres have been
confined to the territory of the six provinces where reforms
were to be instituted. When a band of two thousand Kurdish and
Circassian raiders approached the boundary between the provinces
of Sivas and Angora, they were turned back by the officials, who
told them that they had no authority to pass beyond the province
of Sivas. The only large places where outrages occurred outside
of the six provinces are Trebizond, Marash, Aintab, and Cesarea,
in all of which the Moslems were excited by the nearness of the
scenes of massacre, and by the reports of the plunder which other
Moslems were securing.