Vilayet Ioannina

Balkan Peninsula with the Vilâyet Janina in the 1860s

Ottoman Empire with the Vilâyet Janina in 1900

The Vilayet of Janina ( Ottoman ولايت يانیه İA Vilâyet-i Yanya ) was an administrative unit ( Vilâyet ) of the Ottoman Empire in the Western Balkans with the capital Janina .

It covered an area of ​​18,320 square kilometers. It was formed in 1867 by the merger of the paschaliks of Janina and Berat and was divided into the sanjaks of Janina, Avlona (Vlora), Ergiri (Gjirokastra), Preveze , Tırhala (Trikala) and Kesriye (Kastoria). Kesriye was later downgraded to a Kaza and attached to the Vilâyet Monastir ; Tırhala was ceded to the Kingdom of Greece in 1881 .

Fetichie Mosque in Ioannina

During the uprising of 1912 the Albanians demanded that the Vilayet Janina should be merged with the Vilayet Monastir, the Vilayet Shkodra and the Vilayet Kosovo to form an Albanian Vilayet (alb. Katër vilajetët - four Vilayets). The Sublime Porte ended the Albanian uprisings on September 4, 1912 by accepting almost all of the rebels' demands, including the establishment of the Vilayet. The existence of the Vilayet finally ended on May 30, 1913 with the signing of the London Treaty , when the southern part was annexed to Greece and the northern Epirus part of the new Albanian state . The indigenous Albanian-speaking Çamen population that remained in the south was gradually expelled with the population exchange between Greece and Turkey and finally at the end of the Second World War .

population

According to Aram Andonian and Zavren Biberyan, in 1908 out of a total population of 648,000, a total of 315,000 inhabitants of the Vilayet Janina were Albanians , most of them Muslims and Christian Orthodox , some also followers of Roman Catholicism . Aromanians and Greeks made up 180,000 and 110,000 inhabitants, respectively. Smaller communities included Bulgarians , Turks , Roma and Jews .

Official Ottoman statistics from 1893 & 1911

group	1893	1911
Greeks	286,304	311.032
Muslims	225,415	244,638
Jews	3,677	3,990
Catholics	83	-
Other	997	1,175
total	516.476	560.835

Administrative division

The sanjaks of Vilayet Janina were:

1. Sanjak by Janina (Yanya, Paramythia , Filat , Metsovo , Leskovik , Konitsa )
2. Sandschak of Ergiri (Gjirokastra, Delvina , Saranda , Përmet , Frashër , Tepelena , Kurvelesh , Himara )
3. Sanjak of Preveza (Preveza, Louros , Margariti )
4. Sanjak of Berat (Berat, Vlora , Leshnja , Fier )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Europe by Élisée Reclus , p. 152
2. ^ Stanford J. Shaw , Ezel Kural Shaw: History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey . tape 2 . The Press Syndicate of University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 2002, ISBN 0-521-29166-6 , Clearing the Decks: Ending the Tripolitanian War and the Albanian Revolt, pp. 293 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 10, 2011] First edition: 1977).
3. ^ Edward J. Erickson: Defeat in detail: the Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913 . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 0-275-97888-5 , pp. 41 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Kemal H. Karpat. : Ottoman Population Records and the Census of 1881 / 82-1893 . In: Int. J. Middle East Stud. , 9 1978, 237-274, p. 37
5. ^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History . ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF) Alternative educational materials, p. 26