Constantinople vilayet
The Vilayet of Constantinople[2] or Istanbul (Turkish: Vilâyet-i İstanbul, French: Vilayet de Constantinople) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, encompassing the imperial capital, Constantinople (Istanbul).
| İstanbul | |||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1878–1922 | |||||||||
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| Population | |||||||||
• Muslim, 1914[1] | 560,434 | ||||||||
• Greek, 1914[1] | 205,752 | ||||||||
• Armenian, 1914[1] | 82,880 | ||||||||
• Jewish, 1914[1] | 52,126 | ||||||||
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• Established | 1878 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1922 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
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History
It had a special organisation, as it was placed under the immediate authority of the Minister of Police (Zabtiye Naziri), who filled a role equivalent to the governor (wali) in other vilayets.[3]
It included Stamboul (the inner city, known in Turkish as Istanbul) and the quarters of Eyüp, Kassim Pacha, Pera and Galata, and all the suburbs from Silivri on the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea on the European side, and from Ghili on the Black Sea to the end of the Gulf of İzmit on the Asiatic side.[3]
In 1878, a provincial structure, with a governor (wāli) and provincial officers, was established to perform the same functions within Constantinople that provincial authorities performed elsewhere in the Empire.[4]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks and kazas, circa 1877:[3]
- Sanjak of Stamboul: kazas of Fatih-Sultan-Mehmet, Eyüp, Kartal, Prince Islands
- Sanjak of Pera: kazas of Galata, Yeniköy.
- Sanjak of Scutari: kaza of Beykoz.
- Sanjak of Büyükçekmece, kaza of Çatalca.
Demography
| Istanbul vilayet 1914 population [5] | |||||||||||||||
| Township | Muslim | % | Greek Orthodox | % | Armenian | % | Jewish | % | Others | % | Total | ||||
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| Fatih (Downtown) | 279,056 | 64,287 | 28,095 | 13,441 | 2,013 | 386,892 | |||||||||
| Bakırköy | 28,967 | 11,221 | 5,954 | 364 | 390 | 46,896 | |||||||||
| Adalar | 1,586 | 8,725 | 652 | 79 | - | 45 | - | 11,087 | |||||||
| Beyoğlu | 117,267 | 75,971 | 30,642 | 31,080 | - | 6,135 | - | 261,095 | |||||||
| Üsküdar | 70,447 | 19,832 | 13,949 | 6,836 | 579 | - | 111,643 | ||||||||
| Gebze | 26,220 | 5,856 | 47 | - | 21 | - | 32,144 | ||||||||
| Kartal | 8,257 | 6,862 | 3,216 | 13 | - | - | 18,348 | ||||||||
| Beykoz | 14,466 | 3,708 | 325 | 292 | 1 | - | 18,792 | ||||||||
| Şile | 14,168 | 8,913 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23,081 | ||||||
| Total | 560,434 | 205,375 | 82,880 | 52,126 | 9,163 | 909,978 | |||||||||
| Armenians: 72,962 Gregorian and 9,918 Catholic. The province has a total population of 1,213 Protestants and 387 Greek Catholics. | |||||||||||||||
See also
References
- "1914 Census Statistics" (PDF). Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- Geographical Dictionary of the World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 1796. ISBN 978-81-7268-012-1. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- Baker, James (1877). Turkey in Europe. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. pp. 515–516.
- Stanford Jay Shaw; Ezel Kural Shaw (1977). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-29166-8. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
- Karpat, Kemal (1985). Ottoman Population, 1830-1914: Demographic and Social Characteristics. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 170–171. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
