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The Vilayet of Salonica ( ota, ولايت سلانيك, Vilâyet-i Selânik) was a first-level administrative division ( vilayet) of the
Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...
from 1867 to 1912. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of .Europe
by Éliseé Reclus, page 152
The vilayet was bounded by the Principality (later Kingdom), of
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on the north; Eastern Rumelia on the northeast (after the Treaty of Berlin);
Edirne Vilayet The Vilayet of Adrianople or Vilayet of Edirne ( ota, ولايت ادرنه; ''Vilâyet-i Edirne'') was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. This vilayet was split between Turkey and Greece in 1923, culminating i ...
on the east; the
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on the south; Monastir Vilayet and the independent sanjak of Serfije on the west (after 1881); the Kosovo Vilayet on the northwest. The vilayet consisted of present Central and Eastern parts of Greek Macedonia and Pirin Macedonia in
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. Present Pirin Macedonia part of it was administrated as
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s of Cuma-yı Bala, Petriç, Nevrekop, Menlik, Ropçoz and Razlık. It was dissolved after
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and divided among
Kingdom of Greece The Kingdom of Greece ( grc, label= Greek, Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος ) was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, wh ...
,
Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Prin ...
and
Tsardom of Bulgaria The Tsardom of Bulgaria was the name of the Bulgarian state from Simeon's assumption of the title of Tsar in 913 until the Fatherland Front's foundation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1946. It occurred in three distinct periods: b ...
in 1913.


Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:Selanik Vilayeti , Tarih ve Medeniyet
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Sanjak of Selanik The Sanjak of Salonica or Selanik (Ottoman Turkish: ; el, λιβάς/σαντζάκι Θεσσαλονίκης) was a second-level Ottoman province ('' sanjak'' or '' liva'') encompassing the environs of the city of Thessalonica (Salonica, Turk ...
(
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
, Kesendire, Karaferye, Vodina, Yenice-i Vardar, Langaza, Kılkış (It was also called Avrathisar),
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, Aynaroz, Doyran, Usturumca, Tikveş, Gevgili) #
Sanjak of Siroz The Sanjak of Siroz or Serres (Ottoman Turkish: ''Sancak-i/Liva-i Siroz''; el, λιβάς/σαντζάκι Σερρών, bg, Серски Санджак) was a second-level Ottoman province ('' sanjak'' or '' liva'') encompassing the region aro ...
( Serez, Zihne, Demirhisar, Razlık, Cuma-yı Bala, Menlik, Nevrekop) # Sanjak of Drama (
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, Sarışaban, Taşoz (It was later promoted to sanjak), Pravişte, Dövlen) #Sanjak of Taşoz (It was initially part of Sanjak of Drama, its center was Vulgaro)


Demographics

According to the 1881/82-1893 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 1.009.992 people, ethnically consisting as: * Turks - 450.456 *
Greeks The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, ot ...
- 282.013 *
Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely underst ...
- 231.606 *
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
- 41.984 *
Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
- 2.654 *
Protestants Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
- 329 *
Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...
- 48 *Foreign citizens - 1.272 According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 921,359 people, ethnically consisting as: *Muslims - 419.604 *Orthodox Greeks - 263.881 *Orthodox Bulgarians - 155.710 *Jews - 52.395 *Wallachians (
Vlachs "Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Easte ...
) - 20.486 * Gypsies - 4.736 *Catholic Greeks - 2.693 *Oriental Armenians - 637 *Protestants - 329 *Catholic Armenians - 58 * Latins - 31 *
Syrians Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both ind ...
- 4 *Foreign citizens - 795 According to an estimate by Aram Andonian in 1908 there was the following ethnic distribution in the vilayet:Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913; Edward J. Erickson; Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; p.41
/ref> *Orthodox Bulgarians - 446,050 *Muslim Turks - 333,440 *Orthodox Greeks - 168,500 * Muslim Bulgarians - 98,590 *Jews - 55,320 *Orthodox
Vlachs "Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other Easte ...
- 24,970 *Muslim Gypsies - 22,200 *Mixed - 16,320


Governors

* Mehmet Akif Pasha (June 1867 - February 1869) *
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(February 1869 - September 1871) * Kekimbashi Ismail Pasha (September 1871 - May 1872) * Hurshid Pasha (May 1872 - August 1872) * Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (1st time) (August 1872 - May 1873) * Mehmet Akif Pasha (3rd time) (May 1873 - September 1873) * Ahmed Midhat Sefik Pasha (October 1873 - February 1874) * Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (2nd time) (February 1874 - September 1875) * Baytar Mehmed Refet Pasha (December 1875 - June 1876) * Mustafa Esref Pasha (June 1876 - April 1877) * Cerkez Nusret Pasha (June 1877 - December 1877) * Ibrahim Halil Pasha (December 1877 - July 1878) *
Halil Rifat Pasha Halil Rifat Pasha ( Modern Turkish: ''Halil Rıfat Paşa''; 1820According to the obituary in The Times, he was born about 1807. This would make him almost 95 years old at the time of his death. Other sources give 1820.–9 November 1901) was an ...
(July 1878 - March 1880) *
Abidin Pasha Abidin, Abadin, or Abdin is both an Arabic male given name and surname, meaning "worshippers". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Abidin Dino (1913-1993), Turkish artist and painter * Zeynel Abidin Erdem, Turkish business tycoon * ...
(March 1880 - June 1880) * Lofçali Ibrahim Dervish Pasha (August 1880 - January 1882) * Ismail Hakki Pasha (March 1882 - September 1885) * Hasan Hakki Pasha (September 1885 - August 1886) * Abdullah Galib Pasha (August 1886 - August 1891) * Mustafa Zihni Pasha (October 1891 - November 1895) * Hasan Fehmi Pasha (1st time) (1895) * Ramazanoglu Hüseyin Riza Pasha (January 1896 - January 1899) * Haci Hasan Refik Pasha (January 1899 - May 1901) * Biren Mahmud Tevfik Beg (May 1901 - May 1902) * Hasan Fehmi Pasha (2nd time) (May 1902 - September 1904) * Mehmed Sherif Ra'uf Pasha (September 1904 - August 1908) * Ali Danis Beg (August 1908 - September 1909) * Pirizade Ibrahim Hayrullah Bey (September 1909 - January 1912) * Kadri Huseyin Kazim Bey (January 1912 - 8 August 1912) * Ali Ferid Pasha (August 1912 - September 1912)


Notes


References

* La Grande Encyclopédie, ''s.v.'' Salonique.


External links

* * {{Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire, expanded = Vilayets Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire in Europe Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Thessalonica 1867 establishments in the Ottoman Empire 1912 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire