Vilayet Aydin

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The Vilayet Aydın in red around 1900
Map of the Vilayet Aydin / Smyrna from 1894

The Vilâyet Aydın ( Ottoman ولايت ايدين Vilâyet-i Aydın ) was the name of a province of the Ottoman Empire . Aydın is now the name for the Turkish province of the same name Aydın . The name of the province comes from the principality of Aydınoğulları , who ruled the region before the Ottomans.

The Vilayet Aydın, created in 1864, comprised the sanjaks İzmir , Aydın and Muğla . In 1877 the number of sanjaks rose to four , according to an administrative agreement with the new sanjak Manisa . In 1892 the number of sanjaks with Denizli rose to five. The sanjak Izmir was the center of the vilayet. In the 1900s, the Vilâyet covered a large part of what is now the Aegean region .

population

The population of the Ottoman Empire was classified in the registers according to their millet or religion. This gave rise to categories such as Muslims, Jews and Greek Orthodox Christians. In 1914, a total of 1,249,067 of the residents of Aydin were Muslims.

The number of Greeks was 299,097. About 35,041 inhabitants were Jews and only 20,287 inhabitants were Armenians .

Individual evidence

  1. Abdulhamit Kırmızı: Abdülhamid'in valileri - Osmanlı vilayet idaresi: 1895–1908 . Klasik Yayınları, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 975-8740-43-1 , p. 120 (Turkish)
  2. a b c d 1914 census statistics (PDF) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsk.tr