Vilayet Adana

The Ottoman Vilâyet Adana in 1900

Map of the Vilayet Adana from 1892

The Vilayet Adana ( Armenian Ադանայի վիլայեթ , Ottoman Vilayet-i Adana, Turkish Adana Vilayeti ) was a vilayet ( province ) of the Ottoman Empire in the region of Cilicia .

administration

The Vilayet Adana bordered the Vilayet Konya in the west, the Vilayets Ankara and Sivas in the north and the Vilayet Aleppo in the south and east .

The sanjaks of Vilayet Adana were:

• Sanjak Mersin
• Sanjak Adana
• Sanjak Kozan
• Sanjak Osmaniye

population

See also : Adana Massacre

Until the genocide of the Armenians and the simultaneous persecution of the Greeks in 1915, the Adana Vilayet had 403,400 inhabitants. Almost half of the total population were Armenians (178,000 in total), of whom only 52,650 were Christian Armenians, as the majority of them had converted to Sunni Islam. Another 8,974 inhabitants were Greeks. In addition, Circassians , Arabs , Turkomans , Kurds , Yörük -Turkmen and so-called " Gypsies " (tr. "Cingen" ) lived in the region .

Because of the bad climatic conditions in Cilicia, the Vilayet Adana was relatively sparsely populated. The most populous cities were Adana and Mersin .

Web links

• Ադանա Նահանգ in pedia.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 1914 census statistics . General Staff of Turkey . Pp. 605-606. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2011.