Vilayet Aleppo

The Vilayet Aleppo

Map of the Vilayet Aleppo from 1892

The Vilâyet Aleppo ( Turkish Halep Vilâyeti ) was a province in the Ottoman Empire established in 1864 , which existed in the area of ​​today's Syria and the Turkish province of Hatay . It had an area of ​​86,600 km².

The provincial capital of the Vilayets was Aleppo . The Vilâyet was built as part of the administrative reform called Teşkil-i Vilâyet Nizamnâmesi . It existed until 1920, when, after the First World War, France converted the area into the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon .

The vilayet consisted of the following sanjaks :

• Halep
• Ayıntab
• Urfa
• Maraş

population

In 1914 the population was 576,320 Muslims, but before the great persecution of the Greeks there were also non-Muslim minorities: 40,843 were Armenians and 21,954 were Greeks .

Population numbers
Halep
year	Residents
1874	535,700
1884	756,300
1890	994,600
1891	995,800
1900	996.300
1910	944,800
1920	787,000
Y & G

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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.