| Native Name: | Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ولايت طربزون Vilâyet-i Ṭrabzōn French: Vilayet de Trébizonde |
| Common Name: | Trebizond Vilayet |
| Subdivision: | Vilayet |
| Nation: | the Ottoman Empire |
| Year Start: | 1867 |
| Year End: | 1922 |
| Event Start: | Vilayet Law |
| P1: | Trebizond Eyalet |
| S1: | Giresun Province |
| Flag S1: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S2: | Gümüşhane Province |
| Flag S2: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S3: | Ordu Province |
| Flag S3: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S4: | Rize Province |
| Flag S4: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S5: | Samsun Province |
| Flag S5: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S6: | Trabzon Province |
| Flag S6: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |
| S7: | Kutais Governorate |
| Flag S7: | Flag of Russia.svg |
| Image Map Caption: | The Trebizond Vilayet in 1890 |
| Capital: | Trabizond |
| Today: | Turkey Georgia |
| Stat Year1: | Muslim, 1914[1] |
The Vilayet of Trebizond (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ولايت طربزون|Vilâyet-i Ṭrabzōn; French: Vilayet de Trébizonde) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) in the north-eastern part of the Ottoman Empire, corresponding to the area along the eastern Black Sea coastline and the interior highland region of the Pontic Alps.
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 12082sqmi, while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 1,047,700.[2] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[2]
After the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the sanjak of Lazistan was established.[3] Rize became the center of the district due to the cession of Batumi, the former centre of the sanjak, to Russia with kaza of Artvin. The salname of the year 1344h/1904-1905 mentioned several Armenian pharmacists.[4] The Vilayet also counted with a considerable Greek population.[5]
During World War I eastern half of vilayet (Kazas of Görele, Vakfıkebir, Akçaabat, Trabzon, Of and Maçka with sanjaks of Lazistan and Gümüşhane) was occupied by Russian troops by summer 1916. It was retaken by Ottomans in 1918.
thumb|right|x150px|Map of subdivisions of Trebizond Vilayet in 1907
The Sanjak of Trabzon had a Muslim majority since the 16th century. Western estimates given in the 19th century about the City of Trabzon estimate a Turkish majority.[6]
| Ethno-religious composition of the districts of the Trabzon vilayet 1914[7] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjak/Kaza | Muslims | Greek Orthodox | Armenian | Jewish | Others | Total | |
| 64,726 | 23,806 | 14,846 | 8 | 127 | 104,858 | ||
| 111,421 | 18,505 | 12,349 | - | 1,211 | 143,491 | ||
| 75,050 | 1,819 | - | - | - | 76,869 | ||
| 56,401 | 6,561 | 3,517 | - | - | 66,479 | ||
| 48,999 | 10,530 | 868 | - | - | 60,397 | ||
| 57,698 | 9,762 | 323 | - | - | 67,783 | ||
| 92,301 | 24,138 | 2,275 | - | - | 118,714 | ||
| 42,823 | 1,648 | 312 | - | - | 44,783 | ||
| Vakfıkebir | 28.484 | 13 | 51 | - | - | 28,548 | |
| Maçka | 17,950 | 19,575 | 258 | - | - | 37,783 | |
| Trabzon Sanjak | 595,853 | 116,357 | 36,149 | 8 | 1,338 | 749,705 | |
| Lazistan (Rize) | 122,055 | 1,507 | 5 | - | - | 123,567 | |
| 50,297 | 171 | 28 | - | - | 50,496 | ||
| 38,156 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 38,202 | ||
| Lazistan sanjak | 210,508 | 1,722 | 35 | - | - | 212,265 | |
| 29,639 | 9,179 | 1,817 | - | - | 40,635 | ||
| 29,686 | 30,547 | 24 | - | - | 60,257 | ||
| 22,312 | 3,155 | 392 | - | - | 25,859 | ||
| 33,130 | 614 | 482 | - | - | 34,226 | ||
| Gümüşhane sanjak | 114,767 | 43,495 | 2,715 | - | - | 160,977 | |
| Canik (Samsun) | 44,992 | 54,709 | 4,791 | 18 | 533 | 105,044 | |
| 58,351 | 5,251 | 5,861 | 9 | - | 69,472 | ||
| 48,944 | 30.838 | 1,735 | - | 81,517 | |||
| 35,678 | 3,026 | 1,250 | - | 385 | 40,339 | ||
| 54,353 | 3,948 | 10,820 | - | 609 | 69,730 | ||
| 23,632 | 967 | 2,601 | - | - | 27,200 | ||
| Canik sanjak | 265,950 | 98,739 | 27,319 | 27 | 1,267 | 393,302 | |
| Total | 1,187,078 | 260,313 | 66,218 | 35 | 2,605 | 1,516,249 | |
| Note: Included in the 66,218 Armenians are 64,607 Apostolics and 1,611 Catholics. | |||||||
The vilayet included three sanjaks (four after 1889)[8] and 22 kazas.[9] Sanjaks of the Vilayet: