Arapgir (Armenian: Արաբկիր; Kurdish: Erebgir[2]) is a municipality and district of Malatya Province, Turkey.

[1] It is situated at the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams.

The old town of Arapgir was founded by the Armenian King Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni in 1021, who had exchanged his kingdom of Vaspurakan for estates in the central lands of the Byzantine Empire.

The Armenian population is reported to have suffered severely during the Hamidian massacres of 1895,[26] although, in this regard, Donald Quataert notes, with textile exports back to normal levels a year after the turmoil, in 1896, either all weavers were Muslims after all, or few Armenian weavers were killed, displaced or disrupted during the troubles.

The town also contains the ruins of a castle, several Seljuk mosques,[5] old cemetery and silver mines.