Vilayet Kastamonu

Map of the Vilayets Kastamonu in the Ottoman Empire

Map of the Vilayet Kastamonu from 1895

The Vilayet Kastamonu ( Turkish Kastamonu Vilayeti ) was a Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire . It had an area of ​​50,686 km², the capital was Kastamonu .

history

Until the 19th century Kastamonu was a sandjak of Eyâlet Anatolia and was renamed Eyalet in 1846 and by the Vilâyet Nizamnâmesi in 1867 into a Vilâyet.

Sanjaks

The sanjaks of the Vilayets Kastamonu were:

• Kastamonu Sancağı
• Bolu Sancağı
• Kangırı (Kengırı) Sancağı
• Sinop Sancağı'dır.

population

In 1914 there were 737,302 Muslims, 20,958 were Pontic Greeks and only 8,959 were Armenians .

Population numbers
Kastamoni
year	Residents
1864	772,000
1884	917,700
1890	1,009,500
1891	1,018,900
1900	961.200
1910	1,109,600
1920	728.100
Y & G

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye'nin Bin Üçyüz Onüç Senesine Mahsus İstatistik-i Umumîsi, İstanbul, Alem Matbaası, 1316/1900.
2. ↑ ^{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.