Manastir vilayet

ولايت مناستر
*Vilâyet-i Manastır*
ولايت مناستر; Vilâyet-i Manastır
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1874–1877; 1879–1912
	Flag
	; The Manastir Vilayet in 1867–1912
Capital	Manastir
Population
• 1911	1,069,789
History
• Established	1874
• Disestablished	1912
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Rumelia Eyalet
Independent Albania
Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
Today part of	Albania; North Macedonia; Greece

The Vilayet of Manastir^[3] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت مناستر, romanized: 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

Ottoman map from 1907, showing the vilayet's five sanjaks

Table of the quantity and composition of the gendarmerie in the Bitola Vilayet (Bitola, July 22, 1904)

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]

Sanjak of Manastir: Kazas of Manastir (Bitola), Pirlepe (Prilep), Florina, Kıraçova (Kičevo) and Ohrid.
Sanjak of Serfiğe (Between 1864-1867 and 1873–1892): Kazas of Serfiçe (modern Servia), Kozana (modern Kozani), Alasonya (modern Elasson), Kayalar (Ptolemaida), Nasliç (modern Neapolis, Kozani) and Grebne (modern Grevena).
Sanjak of Dibra: Kazas of Debre-i Bala (Debar), Mat, Debre-i Zir (Its center was Piskopoya), Rakalar (region around river Radika (its local name is River region (Macedonian: Река).
Sanjak of Elbasan (İlbasan): Kazas of İlbasan, Grameç and Peklin.
Sanjak of Görice: Kazas of Görice (Korçë), İstarova (Pogradec), Kolonya (Erseke) (Its center was Ersek) and Kesriye (Kastoria).

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]^{[verification needed]}

Turks, Ottomans: 78,867
Albanians, Ghegs: 144,918
Albanians, Tosks: 81,518
Albanians, Christians: 35,525
Slavs, Exarchists: 186,656
Slavs, Patriarchists: 93,694
Slavs, Muslims: 11,542
Greeks, Christians: 97,439
Greeks, Muslims: 10,584
Vlachs (Aromanians): 53,227
Jews: 5,270

1906/07

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

Muslims - 328,551
Christian Greeks - 286,001
Christian Bulgarians - 197,088
Wallachians - 5,556
Jews - 5,459
Gypsies - 2,104
Armenians - 8
Protestants - 5
Latins - 3
Foreign citizens - 53

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]

Muslims - 455,720
Greeks - 349.541
Bulgarians - 246,344
Jews - 10,651
Armenians - 9
Other - 2,614

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]

Orthodox Bulgarians - 331,000
Muslim Albanians - 219,000
Orthodox Vlachs - 65,500
Orthodox Greeks - 62,000
Muslim Bulgarians - 24,000
Muslim Turks - 11,500
mixed - 35,000

References

^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Monastir" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Macedonia" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 [1875]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
^ ^a ^b Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German). Vol. 13. Reichert. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9783920153568.
^ Gjurmime albanologjike (in Serbian). Pristina: Albanološki institut u Prištini. 1968. p. 177. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
^ http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908
^ "Jedna statistika iz srednje Maćedonije". Nova Iskra (15–16): 251. 26 July 1899.
^ Kemal Karpat (1985), Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics, The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 168-169
^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
^ Published on December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (Our Nation Awakes) - view the table of Vilajet Manastir: Skynet GodsdBalkan Archived 2017-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to Monastir Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Monastir" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[mseh-2] Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26

[eb1911-3] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Macedonia" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[4] Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 [1875]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.

[ProvinzenMonastirVilayet-5] Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German). Vol. 13. Reichert. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9783920153568.

[6] Gjurmime albanologjike (in Serbian). Pristina: Albanološki institut u Prištini. 1968. p. 177. Retrieved 4 January 2012.

[7] ttp://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908

[8] "Jedna statistika iz srednje Maćedonije". Nova Iskra (15–16): 251. 26 July 1899.

[9] Kemal Karpat (1985), Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics, The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 168-169

[10] Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26

[skynet-11] Published on December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (Our Nation Awakes) - view the table of Vilajet Manastir: Skynet GodsdBalkan Archived 2017-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

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