The Sanjak of Monastir or Manastir ( tr, Manastir Sancağı) or Bitola, was a ''

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

'' within the

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(1465–1867) and then the Manastir Vilayet (1874–1912). The administrative seat was in Manastir (Bitola).

Sub-districts

1880

The sub-districts, ''

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'', of the Sanjak of Manastir included (in 1880): *Bitola *

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*Kičevo *Prilep *Ohrid And the mudurluk of: *Prespa *Resen *Ekşisu *Mariovo

–1908

The sub-districts, ''kaza'', of the Sanjak of Manastir included (before 1908): *Monastir (

Bitola Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki ...

) *Pirlepe (

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) *

*Kıraçova (

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) *

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Demographics

1897

According to Russian consul in the Manastir Vilayet, A. Rostkovski, finishing the statistical article in 1897, the total population of the sanjak was 308,996, with Rostkovski grouping the population into the following groups: *Slavic Exarchists: 151,863 *Slavic Patriarchists: 51,749 *Slavic Muslims: 8,251 *Albanian Muslims: 45,259 *Albanian Christians: 723 *Vlachs (

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and

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): 22,681 *Turks, Ottomans: 24,923 *Jews: 4,270

Ottoman censuses

According to the 1881–1882 and the

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, the population of the Sanjak of Manastir is distributed, as follows:

References

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