| ولايت ايدين (Ottoman Turkish) Vilâyet-i Aidin | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1867–1919 | |||||||||
_3.348_Smyrne_Vilayet.jpg) The Aidin Vilayet in 1894 | |||||||||
| Capital | Smyrna (İzmir) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 38°04′N 28°15′E / 38.06°N 28.25°E | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1867 | |||||||||
• Greek occupation | 1919 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
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The Vilayet of Aidin[2] or Aydin (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ايدين, romanized: Vilâyet-i Aidin,[3] French: vilayet d'Aïdin) also known as Vilayet of Smyrna or İzmir after its administrative centre, was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the south-west of Asia Minor, including the ancient regions of Lydia, Ionia, Caria and western Lycia.[4] It was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as the "richest and most productive province of Asiatic Turkey".[4]
At the beginning of the 20th century, Aidin Vilayet reportedly had an area of 17,370 square miles (45,000 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 1,390,783.[5] The stated accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[5] As of 1920, the vilayet had an "exceptionally large" Christian population.[6]
- ^ "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, p. 1796, at Google Books
- ^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Aidin ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Aidin"), Aydın vilâyet matbaası, Aydın, 1313 [1895]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- ^ a b Ramsay, William Mitchell; Hogarth, David George (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 281–282.
- ^ a b Asia by A. H. Keane, p. 459
- ^ Prothero, G.W. (1920). Anatolia. London: H.M. Stationery Office.