Manastir vilayet explained

Native Name:Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ولايت مناستر
Vilâyet-i Manastır
Common Name:Manastir Vilayet
Subdivision:Vilayet
Nation:the Ottoman Empire
Life Span:1874–1877
1879–1912
Year Start:1874
Year End:1912
P1:Rumelia Eyalet
Flag P1:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg
S1:Independent Albania
Flag S1:Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_1912-1914.gif
S2:Kingdom of Greece
Flag S2:Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg
S3:Kingdom of Serbia
Flag S3:State Flag of Serbia (1882-1918).svg
Image Map Caption:The Manastir Vilayet in 1867–1912
Capital:Manastir[1]
Today:Albania
North Macedonia
Greece
Stat Year1:1911[2]
Stat Pop1:1,069,789

The Vilayet of Manastir[3] (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ولايت مناستر|Vilâyet-i Manastır)[4] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879.[5] The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Serbia,[5] with some parts later becoming part of the newly established Principality of Albania.

Administrative divisions

Initially the Manastir Vilayet had the following sanjaks:[6]

After administrative reforms in 1867 and 1877 some parts of the Manastir Vilayet were ceded to newly established Scutari Vilayet (1867) and Kosovo Vilayet (1877).

Administrative divisions of Manastir Vilayet until 1912:[7]

Demographics

1897

According to Russian consul in the Manastir Vilayet, A. Rostkovski, finishing the statistical article in 1897, the total population was 803,340, with Rostkovski grouping the population into the following groups:[8]

1906/07

According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 824,828 people, ethnically consisting as:[9]

1911

According to Ottoman census data, the ethnoreligious composition in 1911 was the following (Serbs and Orthodox Albanians were included as either Greeks or Bulgarians):[10]

1912

According to an estimation published in a Belgian magazine, the ethnic composition in 1912 when the vilayet was dissolved during the First Balkan War was:[11]

Notes and References

  1. Monastir . 18.
  2. http://lfh.edu.gr/histoiregeographie/sites/default/files/Ressources%20pedagogiques/conseils_bibliographiques/WorkBook3.pdf Teaching Modern Southeast European History
  3. Macedonia.
  4. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003515307 Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır
  5. Book: Birken, Andreas . Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches . Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients . 13 . de . Reichert . 1976 . 9783920153568 . 71–72.
  6. Book: Gjurmime albanologjike. 1968. Albanološki institut u Prištini. Pristina. 4 January 2012. 177. sr.
  7. http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908
  8. Jedna statistika iz srednje Maćedonije. 26 July 1899. Nova Iskra. 15–16. 251.
  9. [Kemal Karpat]
  10. http://lfh.edu.gr/histoiregeographie/sites/default/files/Ressources%20pedagogiques/conseils_bibliographiques/WorkBook3.pdf Teaching Modern Southeast European History
  11. Published on December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (Our Nation Awakes) - view the table of Vilajet Manastir: Skynet GodsdBalkan

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