Vilayet Shkodra

The Vilayet Shkodra in the Ottoman Empire

The Vilâyet Shkodra ( Turkish İşkodra Vilayeti , Albanian Vilajeti i Shkodrës ) was a province ( Vilâyet ) of the Ottoman Empire and existed between 1867 and 1913 when it became part of the newly independent Albanian state, the Principality of Albania . The Vilâyet had an area of 13,800 square kilometers, 349,455 inhabitants (1911) and Shkodra as the capital. The population consisted mainly of Albanians who belonged to Islam , Orthodox Christianity or Catholicism .

The province was further divided into two sanjaks :

Sanjak İşkodra
Sanjak Dıraç ( Durrës )

Individual evidence

↑ TEACHING MODERN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN HISTORY. (PDF; 8.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; accessed on April 3, 2012 (English, p. 26). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lfh.edu.gr
↑ İşkodra Vilayeti. Tarih ve Medeniyet, accessed April 3, 2012 (Turkish).

[1] TEACHING MODERN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN HISTORY. (PDF; 8.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; accessed on April 3, 2012 (English, p. 26). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lfh.edu.gr

[2] İşkodra Vilayeti. Tarih ve Medeniyet, accessed April 3, 2012 (Turkish).