Ankara Vilayet

Vilâyet-i Ankara Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire ← 1867–1922 → Ankara Vilayet in 1900 Capital Ankara History  -  Established 1867  -  Disestablished 1922 Population  -  Muslim, 1914 877,285   -  Greek, 1914 20,240   -  Armenian, 1914 51,556  Today part of Turkey

The Vilayet of Ankara or Angora was an Ottoman vilayet centered on the city of Ankara in north-central Anatolia, which includes most of ancient Galatia.

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 32,339 square miles (83,760 km²), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 892,901. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

It was an agricultural country, depending for its prosperity on its grain, wool and the mohair obtained from the Angora goats. An important industry was carpet-weaving at Kırşehir and Kayseri. There were mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:

1. Sanjak of Ankara
2. Sanjak of Bozok
3. Sanjak of Kayseri
4. Sanjak of Kirsehir
5. Sanjak of Çorum

External links

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Angora". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Media related to Vilayet of Ankara at Wikimedia Commons