Edirne Vilayet

ولايت ادرنه‎ Vilâyet-i Edirne Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire ← 1867–1922 →   →   → Edirne Vilayet in 1900 Capital Edirne History  -  Established 1867  -  Disestablished 1922 Population  -  Muslim, 1914 360,411   -  Greek, 1914 224,680   -  Armenian, 1914 19,773   -  Jewish, 1914 22,515  Today part of Turkey Greece Bulgaria

The Vilayet of Adrianople or Vilayet of Edirne (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ادرنه‎, Vilâyet-i Edirne) was a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

This vilayet encompassed territories in present-day European Turkey, eastern part of Northern Greece and the southern fringes of Southeasthern Bulgaria. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 26,160 square miles (67,800 km²). In the east in bordered with the Istanbul Vilayet, Black and Marmara Seas, it the west with the Salonica Vilayet, in the north with Eastern Rumelia, (Bulgaria) and in the south with the Aegean Sea. Sometimes the area is described also as Southern Thrace, or Adrianopolitan Thrace.

After the city of Adrianople (pop. in 1905 about 80,000), the principal towns ware Rodosto (35,000), Gallipoli (25,000), Kirk-Kilisseh (16,000), İskeçe (14,000), Chorlu (11,500), Dimotika (10,000), Enos (8000), Gyumyurdzhina (Bulgarian name of Gümülcine) (8000) and Dedeagatch (3000).

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:

1. Sanjak of Edirne
2. Sanjak of Kirklareli (Kirkkilise)
3. Sanjak of Tekirdag (Tekfurdagi)
4. Sanjak of Gelibolu
5. Sanjak of Dedeağaç (1878-1912)
6. Sanjak of Gümülcine (1878-1912)
7. Sanjak of Filibe (until 1878, then it became part of Eastern Rumelia)
8. Sanjak of Slimia (until 1878, then became part of Eastern Rumelia)

Gallery

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  1907 Ottoman Turkish map of the vilayet

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  Ethnic map of 1912 according to Bulgarian ethnographers

External links

 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adrianople (vilayet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

• Media related to Vilayet of Adrianople at Wikimedia Commons