Vilayet Istanbul

The Vilayet of Constantinople 1900.

Map of the Vilayet Istanbul / Constantinople from 1895

The Vilâyet Istanbul ( Turkish İstanbul Vilayeti ) was a major province ( Vilâyet ) of the Ottoman Empire until 1922 . It was largely identical to today 's Istanbul province . As the seat of the Sultan, Istanbul traditionally stood outside the provincial administration of the Ottoman Empire and was only incorporated into it in the course of the Tanzimat reforms. After the introduction of the Vilâyetsordnung in 1864, the police minister was assigned the functions of Vali of Istanbul in 1869. After Istanbul's special rights had already been revoked by the Ottoman constitution of 1876, the Vilâyet Istanbul was formally established in 1909.

In 1914 - a year before the Armenian genocide and the ethnic cleansing against the Greeks - a total of 560,434 Muslims, 205,752 Greeks , 82,880 Armenians and 52,126 Jews were among the inhabitants of the province .

Administrative division

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The Asian part of the Vilayet was divided into the following Asian Kazas before 1914 :

Asian Kazas

1. Kaza from Üsküdar
2. Kaza from Gebze
3. Kaza from Kartal
4. Kaza from Beykoz
5. Kaza from Şile

See also

• History of Istanbul

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf: The territorial administration in the eastern part of European Turkey from the decree of the Vilayetsordnung (1864) to the Berlin Congress (1878) according to official Ottoman publications. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Freiburg 1976, p. 150
2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf: The territorial administration in the eastern part of European Turkey from the decree of the Vilayetsordnung (1864) to the Berlin Congress (1878) according to official Ottoman publications. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Freiburg 1976, p. 143
3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf: The territorial administration in the eastern part of European Turkey from the Berlin Congress (1878) to the Balkan Wars (1912/13) according to official Ottoman publications. R. Trofenik, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-87828-155-2 , p. 6
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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. 
5. ^ A handbook of Asia Minor Published in 1919 by Naval staff, Intelligence dept. in London. Page 215