Konya Vilayet

ولايت قونيه‎ Vilâyet-i Konya Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire ← 1864–1923 → Konya Vilayet in 1900 Capital Konya History  -  Established 1864  -  Disestablished 1923 Population  -  Muslim, 1914 750,712   -  Greek, 1914 25,150   -  Armenian, 1914 12,971  Today part of Turkey

The Vilayet of Konya (Ottoman language: ولايت قونيه‎, Vilâyet-i Konya) was a vilayet in Asia Minor which included the whole, or parts of, the ancient regions of Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cilicia and Cappadocia.^{[citation needed]}

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 91,620 km2, while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 1,088,100. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

It was formed in 1864 by adding to the old eyalet of Karaman the western half of Adana, and part of southeastern Anatolia.^{[citation needed]} The population was for the most part agricultural and pastoral.^{[citation needed]} The only industries were carpetweaving and the manufacture of cotton and silk stuffs. There were mines of chrome, mercury, cinnabar, argentiferous lead and rock salt.^{[citation needed]} The principal exports were salt, minerals, opium, cotton, cereals, wool and livestock; and the imports cloth-goods, coffee, rice and petroleum.^{[citation needed]} The vilayet was traversed by the Anatolian railway, and contained the railhead of the Ottoman line from Smyrna.^{[citation needed]}

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:

1. Sanjak of Konya
2. Sanjak of Nigde
3. Sanjak of Burdur
4. Sanjak of Antalya (Teke)
5. Sanjak of Hamidabad

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

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