Vilâyet Hüdavendigâr

The Vilâyet Hüdâvendigâr around 1900

Map of the Vilayet Hüdavendigâr from 1895

The Vilâyet Hüdâvendigâr ( Ottoman ولايت خداوندكار İA Vilâyet-i Hüdâvendigâr , Turkish Hüdâvendigâr Vilâyeti ) or Vilâyet Bursa - according to its administrative center ( Hüdâvendigâr is a poetic Ottoman name for today's city of Bursa ), was one of the provinces ( Vilâyet ) of the Ottoman Empire .

The capital was Bursa. At the beginning of the 20th century it had an area of ​​67,980 km². From 1881 to 1888 the Vilâyet Karesi (today Balikesir ) was split off as an independent Vilâyet from Hüdâvendigâr.

population

Until the First World War, the area had large Greek and Armenian populations. According to the 1914 census, the population was 474,114 Muslims , 74,927 Greeks and 60,119 Armenians . Even Jews lived in the United Province. The genocide of the Armenians and the persecution of the Greeks almost completely wiped out the non-Muslim population . Today there are practically no Greeks or Armenians living in the area.

Administrative division

Sanjaks des Vilayets:

1. Sanjak of Bursa
2. Sanjak of Ertugrul ( Bilecik )
3. Sanjak of Kutahya
4. Sanjak of Karahisar-i-Sarip ( Afyonkarahisar )
5. Sanjak of Karesi ( Balikesir )

Web links

Commons : Vilâyet Hüdâvendigâr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salname-yi Vilayet-i Hüdavendigar ( "Year Book of the Vilayet of Hüdavendigar") Hüdavendigar Vilayet MATBAASI, [Bursa], 1296 [1878]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
2. ^ M. Th Houtsma: First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936. P. 768.
3. ↑ AH Keane: Asia . P. 459, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} 1914 population census statistics . (PDF) (No longer available online.) General Staff of Turkey , pp. 605–606 , archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; Retrieved January 19, 2011 . 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.  
5. ↑ Hudâvendigar Vilayeti. Tarih ve Medeniyet