Aleppo vilayet
ولاية حلب Vilâyet-i Haleb | |||||||||||||
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Vilayet of Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
1866–1918 | |||||||||||||
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The Aleppo Vilayet in 1900 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Aleppo | ||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||
• Coordinates | 36°28′N 37°05′E / 36.46°N 37.09°E | ||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• Muslim, 1914[1] | 576,320 | ||||||||||||
• Greek, 1914[1] | 21,954 | ||||||||||||
• Armenian, 1914[1] | 40,843 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
1866 | |||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1918 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | Syria Turkey |
The Vilayet of Aleppo
History
The vilayet was established in March 1866.
Thanks to its strategic geographic location on the trade route between Anatolia and the east, Aleppo rose to high prominence in the Ottoman era, at one point being second only to Constantinople in the empire. However, the economy of Aleppo was badly hit by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and since then Damascus rose as a serious competitor with Aleppo over the title of the capital of Syria.
Historically, Aleppo was more united in economy and culture with its sister Anatolian cities than with Damascus. This fact still shows today with the distinctive cultural differences between Aleppo and Damascus.
At the end of World War I, the
Demographics
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 30,304 square miles (78,490 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) reported a population of 1,500,000.[6] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[6]
The dominant language was Arabic, but Turkish was spoken among the villagers of
Administrative divisions
- Jisr al-Shughur)
- Aintab Sanjak (Gaziantep, Kilis, Rumkale)
- Cebelisemaan Sanjak (Maarrat al-Nu'man, Manbij)
- Marash Sanjak (Kahramanmaraş, Pazarcık, Elbistan, Süleymanlı, Göksun)
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- Ras al-Ayn)
Governors
See also
References
- ^ Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Archived from the original(PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011. // Original document on PDF Pages 629-630/656. Note that Alep is Aleppo in French.
- ^ Geographical Dictionary of the World, p. 1796, at Google Books
- ^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Edirne ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Aleppo"), Halep vilâyet matbaası, Halep [Syria], 1291 [1874]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- ISBN 978-0-19-979276-4.
- ISBN 978-1-107-03363-4.
- ^ A. H. Keane, page 460
- ^ Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Sessional Papers: Volume 93. H.M. Stationery Office. 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ Pavet de Courteille, Abel (1876). État présent de l'empire ottoman (in French). J. Dumaine. pp. 91–96.