Vilayet Konya

The Vilâyet Konya in 1900.

Map of the Vilayet Konya from 1890

The Vilayet Konya ( Ottoman ولايت قونيه Vilâyet-i Konya ) was an Ottoman province ( Vilâyet ) which included parts of the ancient regions of Pamphylia , Pisidia , Phrygia , Lycaonia , Cilicia and Cappadocia .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Konya area had an area of ​​91,620 km², while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census in 1885 (published in 1908) put the population at 1,088,100.

In 1914, of the province's population, 750,712 were Muslim , 25,150 were Cappadocian Greeks (who spoke Cappadocian ) and 12,971 were Armenians . Due to the genocide of the Armenians and the persecution of the Greeks , the non-Muslim part of the population largely disappeared .

Subdivision

Sanjaks of the Vilayets:

• Sanjak Konya
• Sanjak Niğde
• Sanjak Burdur
• Sandschak Antalya (Teke)
• Sandzak Hamidabad

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AH Keane: Asia . P. 459, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
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. 
3. ↑ Konya Vilayeti. Tarih ve Medeniyet