Manastir vilayet
ولايت مناستر Vilâyet-i Manastır | |||||||||||||
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Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
1874–1877 1879–1912 | |||||||||||||
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The Manastir Vilayet in 1867–1912 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Manastir[1] | ||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• 1911[2] | 1,069,789 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1874 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1912 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | Albania North Macedonia Greece |
The Vilayet of Manastir
Administrative divisions
Initially the Manastir Vilayet had the following sanjaks:[6]
- Sanjak of Manastir
- Sanjak of Prizren
- Sanjak of Dibra
- Sanjak of Scutari
After administrative reforms in 1867 and 1877 some parts of the Manastir Vilayet were ceded to newly established
Administrative divisions of Manastir Vilayet until 1912:[7]
- Sanjak of Manastir: Kazas of Manastir (Bitola), Pirlepe (Prilep), Florina, Kıraçova (Kičevo) and Ohrid.
- (modern Grevena).
- Sanjak of Dibra: Kazas of Debre-i Bala (Debar), Mat, Debre-i Zir (Its center was Piskopoya), Rakalar (region around river Radika (its local name is River region (Macedonian: Река).
- Grameç and Peklin.
- Erseke) (Its center was Ersek) and Kesriye (Kastoria).
Demographics
1897
According to Russian consul in the Manastir Vilayet, A. Rostkovski, finishing the statistical article in 1897, the total population was 803,340, with Rostkovski grouping the population into the following groups:[8][verification needed]
- Turks, Ottomans: 78,867
- Albanians, Ghegs: 144,918
- Albanians, Tosks: 81,518
- Albanians, Christians: 35,525
- Slavs, Exarchists: 186,656
- Slavs, Patriarchists: 93,694
- Slavs, Muslims: 11,542
- Greeks, Christians: 97,439
- Greeks, Muslims: 10,584
- Vlachs (Aromanians): 53,227
- Jews: 5,270
1906/07
According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 824,828 people, ethnically consisting as:[9]
- Muslims - 328,551
- Christian Greeks - 286,001
- Christian Bulgarians - 197,088
- Wallachians - 5,556
- Jews - 5,459
- Gypsies- 2,104
- Armenians - 8
- Protestants - 5
- Latins- 3
- Foreign citizens - 53
1911
According to Ottoman census data, the ethnoreligious composition in 1911 was the following (Serbs and Orthodox Albanians were included as either Greeks or Bulgarians):[10]
- Muslims - 455,720
- Greeks - 349.541
- Bulgarians - 246,344
- Jews - 10,651
- Armenians - 9
- Other - 2,614
1912
According to an estimation published in a Belgian magazine, the ethnic composition in 1912 when the vilayet was dissolved during the First Balkan War was:[11]
- Orthodox Bulgarians - 331,000
- Muslim Albanians - 219,000
- Orthodox Vlachs - 65,500
- Orthodox Greeks - 62,000
- Muslim Bulgarians- 24,000
- Muslim Turks - 11,500
- mixed - 35,000
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 [1875]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- ^ ISBN 9783920153568.
- ^ Gjurmime albanologjike (in Serbian). Pristina: Albanološki institut u Prištini. 1968. p. 177. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908
- ^ "Jedna statistika iz srednje Maćedonije". Nova Iskra (15–16): 251. 26 July 1899.
- The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 168-169
- ^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
- ^ Published on December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (Our Nation Awakes) - view the table of Vilajet Manastir: Skynet GodsdBalkan Archived 2017-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Media related to Monastir Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons