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| ولايت سلانيك Vilâyet-i Selânik | |||||||||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1867–1912 | |||||||||||||||
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Salonica[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1911[2] | 1,347,915 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| 1867 | |||||||||||||||
| 1912 | |||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece North Macedonia Bulgaria | ||||||||||||||
The Vilayet of Salonicaromanized: Vilâyet-i Selânik) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire from 1867[4] to 1912. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 12,950 square miles (33,500 km2).[5]
The vilayet was bounded by the Principality (later Kingdom) of
Kosovo Vilayet
on the northwest.
The vilayet consisted of present Central and Eastern parts of
Nevrekop, Menlik, Ropçoz and Razlık.[citation needed] It was dissolved after Balkan Wars and divided among Kingdom of Greece, Kingdom of Serbia and Tsardom of Bulgaria
in 1913.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[6]
- )
- Sanjak of Siroz (Serez, Zihne, Demirhisar, Razlık, Cuma-yı Bala, Menlik, Nevrekop)
- Sanjak of Drama (Drama, Kavala, Sarışaban, Taşoz (It was later promoted to sanjak), Pravişte, Dövlen)
- Sanjak of Taşoz (It was initially part of Sanjak of Drama, its center was Vulgaro)
Demographics
According to the 1881/82-1893 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 1.009.992 people, ethnically consisting as:[7]
- Muslims - 450.456
- Greeks - 282.013
- Bulgarians - 231.606
- Jews - 41.984
- Catholics - 2.654
- Protestants - 329
- Armenians - 48
- Foreign citizens - 1.272
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According to the 1905/06 Ottoman Census, the vilayet had a total population of 921,359 people, ethnically consisting as:[8]
- Muslims - 419.604
- Orthodox Greeks - 263.881
- Orthodox Bulgarians - 155.710
- Jews - 52.395
- Wallachians (Vlachs) - 20.486
- Gypsies- 4.736
- Catholic Greeks - 2.693
- Oriental Armenians - 637
- Protestants - 329
- Catholic Armenians - 58
- Latins - 31
- Syrians - 4
- Foreign citizens - 795
However, according to the Ottoman Archives, the Vilayet's main ethnoconfessional groups according to the 1905/06 Ottoman Census are:[9][10]
- Muslims - 510,125
- Orthodox Greeks (Patriarchists) - 326,030
- Orthodox Bulgarians (Exarchists) - 229,422
- Jews - 52,645
By sanjaks, the four main ethnoconfessional groups number, as follows:
| Sanjak | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muslims | % | Greeks | % | Bulgarians | % | Jews | % | Total | % | |
Sanjak of Selanik
|
233,098 | 39.8 | 211,389 | 36.1 | 92,752 | 15.8 | 49,889 | 8.3 | 586,128 | 100.00 |
| Sanjak of Siroz | 150,045 | 41.1 | 82,334 | 22.5 | 131,476 | 39.3 | 1,580 | 0.4 | 365,435 | 100.00 |
| Sanjak of Drama | 126,982 | 76.2 | 32,307 | 19.4 | 5,194 | 3.1 | 2,176 | 1.3 | 166,659 | 100.00 |
| Total | 510,125 | 45.6 | 326,030 | 29.1 | 229,422 | 20.5 | 52,645 | 4.7 | 1,118,222 | 100.0 |
According to an estimate by Aram Andonian in 1908 there was the following ethnic distribution in the vilayet:[11]
- Orthodox Bulgarians - 446,050
- Muslim Turks - 333,440
- Orthodox Greeks - 168,500
- Muslim Bulgarians- 98,590
- Jews - 55,320
- Orthodox Vlachs - 24,970
- Muslim Gypsies- 22,200
- Mixed - 16,320
Governors
- Mehmet Akif Pasha (June 1867 - February 1869)
- Mehmed Sabri Pasha (February 1869 - September 1871)
- Kekimbashi Ismail Pasha(September 1871 - May 1872)
- Hurshid Pasha (May 1872 - August 1872)
- Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (1st time) (August 1872 - May 1873)
- Mehmet Akif Pasha (3rd time) (May 1873 - September 1873)
- Ahmed Midhat Sefik Pasha(October 1873 - February 1874)
- Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (2nd time) (February 1874 - September 1875)
- Baytar Mehmed Refet Pasha (December 1875 - June 1876)
- Mustafa Esref Pasha (June 1876 - April 1877)
- Cerkez Nusret Pasha (June 1877 - December 1877)
- Ibrahim Halil Pasha (December 1877 - July 1878)
- Halil Rifat Pasha (July 1878 - March 1880)
- Abidin Pasha(March 1880 - June 1880)
- Lofçali Ibrahim Dervish Pasha (August 1880 - January 1882)
- Ismail Hakki Pasha (March 1882 - September 1885)
- Hasan Hakki Pasha (September 1885 - August 1886)
- Abdullah Galib Pasha (August 1886 - August 1891)
- Mustafa Zihni Pasha (October 1891 - November 1895)
- Hasan Fehmi Pasha (1st time) (1895)
- Ramazanoglu Hüseyin Riza Pasha (January 1896 - January 1899)
- Haci Hasan Refik Pasha (January 1899 - May 1901)
- Biren Mahmud Tevfik Beg(May 1901 - May 1902)
- Hasan Fehmi Pasha (2nd time) (May 1902 - September 1904)
- Mehmed Sherif Ra'uf Pasha(September 1904 - August 1908)
- Ali Danis Beg (August 1908 - September 1909)
- Pirizade Ibrahim Hayrullah Bey (September 1909 - January 1912)
- Kadri Huseyin Kazim Bey(January 1912 - 8 August 1912)
- Ali Ferid Pasha (August 1912 - September 1912)
Notes
- ^ Geographical Dictionary of the World, p. 1626, at Google Books
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rumelia at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Éliseé Reclus, page 152
- ^ Selanik Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
- The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 158-159
- The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 168-169
- ^ Tilbe, Özgür (2018). "Hilmi Pasha's Tenure as Inspector-General in Rumelia (1902-1908) / Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa'nın Rumeli Umumî Müfettişliği (1902-1908)" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 132.
- ^ Rahman Ademi (2006). "The Macedonian Muslims in the Era of Abdulhamid II / II. Abdülhamit döneminde Makedonya Müslümanları" (in Turkish). p. 97.
- ^ Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913; Edward J. Erickson; Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; p.41
References
- La Grande Encyclopédie, s.v. Salonique.
External links
Media related to Salonica Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
