Constantinople vilayet
First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
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The Vilayet of Constantinople[2] or Istanbul (Turkish: Vilâyet-i İstanbul) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, encompassing the imperial capital, Constantinople (Istanbul).
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| İstanbul | |||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1878–1922 | |||||||||
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| Population | |||||||||
• Muslim, 1914[1] | 560,434 | ||||||||
• Greek, 1914[1] | 205,752 | ||||||||
• Armenian, 1914[1] | 82,880 | ||||||||
• Jewish, 1914[1] | 52,126 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1878 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1922 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
History
It had a special organisation, as it was placed under the immediate authority of the Minister of Police (Zabtiye Naziri), who filled a role equivalent to the governor (wali) in other vilayets.[3]
It included Stamboul (the inner city, known in Turkish as Istanbul) and the quarters of Eyüp, Kassim Pacha, Pera and Galata, and all the suburbs from Silivri on the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea on the European side, and from Ghili on the Black Sea to the end of the Gulf of İzmit on the Asiatic side.[3]
In 1878, a provincial structure, with a governor (wāli) and provincial officers, was established to perform the same functions within Constantinople that provincial authorities performed elsewhere in the Empire.[4]
Administrative divisions
Demography
| Istanbul vilayet 1914 population [5] | |||||||||||||||
| Township | Muslim | % | Greek Orthodox | % | Armenian | % | Jewish | % | Others | % | Total | ||||
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| Fatih (Downtown) | 279,056 | 72.1% | 64,287 | 16.6% | 28,095 | 7.3% | 13,441 | 3.5% | 2,013 | 0.5% | 386,892 | ||||
| Bakırköy | 28,967 | 61.8% | 11,221 | 23.9% | 5,954 | 12.7% | 364 | 0.8% | 390 | 0.8% | 46,896 | ||||
| Adalar | 1,586 | 14.3% | 8,725 | 78.7% | 652 | 5.9% | 79 | 0.7% | 45 | 0.4% | 11,087 | ||||
| Beyoğlu | 117,267 | 44.9% | 75,971 | 29.1% | 30,642 | 11.7% | 31,080 | 11.9% | 6,135 | 2.4% | 261,095 | ||||
| Üsküdar | 70,447 | 63.1% | 19,832 | 17.8% | 13,949 | 12.5% | 6,836 | 6.1% | 579 | 0.5% | 111,643 | ||||
| Gebze | 26,220 | 81.6% | 5,856 | 18.2% | 47 | 0.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 21 | 0.1% | 32,144 | ||||
| Kartal | 8,257 | 45.0% | 6,862 | 37.4% | 3,216 | 17.5% | 13 | 0.1% | 0 | 0.0% | 18,348 | ||||
| Beykoz | 14,466 | 77.0% | 3,708 | 19.7% | 325 | 1.7% | 292 | 1.6% | 1 | 0.0% | 18,792 | ||||
| Şile | 14,168 | 61.4% | 8,913 | 38.6% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 23,081 | ||||
| Total | 560,434 | 61.6% | 205,375 | 22.6% | 82,880 | 9.1% | 52,126 | 5.7% | 9,163 | 1.0% | 909,978 | ||||
| Armenians: 72,962 Gregorian and 9,918 Catholic. The province has a total population of 1,213 Protestants and 387 Greek Catholics. | |||||||||||||||
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