Vilayet Girit

The Vilâyet Crete around 1900

The Vilâyet Girit (Turkish: Vilâyet-i Girit or Girit Vilâyeti ) was a Vilâyet (province) of the Ottoman Empire on the island of Crete .

history

The island of Crete became an eyâlet of the Ottoman Empire in 1646 . The Republic of Venice had previously ruled the island. In 1864, as a result of the Tanzimat reform period, Crete became a vilayet. There were several revolts against the rule of the Ottomans. After the Turkish-Greek War of 1896, under pressure from the great European powers France , Russia and Great Britain , the Cretan state was established after the peace treaty of December 4, 1897 , which has been a de facto British-French-Russian-Italian protectorate since 1898, separated from the Ottoman Empire was.

population

Map of Crete 1861. Turks (Muslims) (red), Greeks (Christians) (blue)

According to the last Ottoman census in 1881, 76% of the population were Orthodox Christians and 24% Muslim. Christians were represented with more than 90% of the population in 19 of the 23 districts of Crete. Muslims made up more than 60% of the population in three large cities in the north of the island.

Administrative division

• Sanjak Hanya
• Sanjak Resmo
• Sandzak Kandiye
• Sandzak İsfakya
• Sandzak Laşit

Web links

Commons : Vilâyet Kreta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Detorakis, Theocharis "Brief Historical Review of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete"
2. ↑ Enosis: The Union of Crete with Greece ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Peacock, A History of Modern Europe , p. 220
4. ↑ A. Lily Macrakis, Cretan Rebel: Eleftherios Venizelos in Ottoman Crete , Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1983.
5. ↑ by William Yale, The Near East: A modern history (with Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1958)