Adrianople Vilayet

ولايت ادرنه‎ Vilâyet-i Edirne Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire ← 1864–1922 →   →   → Edirne Vilayet in 1900 Capital Edirne History  - Established 1864  - 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 Southern Bulgaria. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 26,160 square miles (67,800 km²). 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). In the east in bordered with the Istanbul Vilayet, Black and Marmara Seas, it the west with the Salonica Vilayet, in the north with Bulgaria and in the south with the Aegean Sea.

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 Dedeagaç (Between 1877-1912 and 1913)
6. Sanjak of Gümülcine (Between 1877-1912 and 1913)
7. Sanjak of Philibe (Plovdiv) (Till 1878, then became part of Eastern Rumelia)
8. Sanjak of Slimia (İslimye, now Sliven) (Till 1878, then became part of Eastern Rumelia)

Gallery

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  Ethnic map of 1912

External links

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