| İstanbul | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||
The Vilayet of Constantinople[2] or Istanbul (Turkish: Vilâyet-i İstanbul, French: Vilayet de Constantinople) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, encompassing the imperial capital, Constantinople (Istanbul).
- ^ a b c d "1914 Census Statistics" (PDF). Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ Geographical Dictionary of the World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 1796. ISBN 978-81-7268-012-1. Retrieved 20 May 2013.