[4] Its old name is Kızıl Kilise (Ottoman Turkish: قزيل کليسا).

[7] The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847, rose to the status of an accident in 1876.

[8] 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.

[6] Nazımiye, which was affiliated to Elazığ during World War I, began to be administered from Tunceli in 1947.