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TURKEY.

According to other non-official estimates, the total population of the empire, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, did not amount, in 1869, to more than 32,000,000. Calculations based upon the returns of the collectors of the Verghi, or poll-tax, in the year 1868, give a population of not more than 13,500,000 to Turkey in Europe.

The total population, estimated, according to the official enume- ration taken in 1844, at 35,350,000, is distributed as follows, in the different divisions of the empire : —

Turkey in Europe.

Thrace Bulgaria

Koumelia and Thessaly Albania

Bosnia and the Herze- govina. . The Islands Moldavia Wallachia. Servia.

1,800,000 3,000,000 2,700,000 1,200,000

1,100,000 700,000 1,400,000 2,600,000 1,000,000

15,500,000

Turkey in Asia.

Asia Minor, or Anatolia 10,700,000 Syria, Mesopotamia, and

Kurdistan. . 4,450,000

Arabia. . . 900,000

16,050,000 Turkey in Africa. Egypt .... 2,000,000 Tripoli, Fez, and Tunis 1,800,000

3,800,000 Total. 35,350,000

The various races of which the population of the empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa is composed, are thus classified in the census taken in 1844 : —

Races

In Europe

In Asia

In Africa

Total

Ottomans.

2,100,000

10,700,000

—

12,800,000

Greeks

1,000,000

1,000,000

—

2,000,000

Armenians.

400,000

2,000,000

—

2,400,000

Jews ....

70,000

80,000

—

150,000

Slaves or Slavonians.

6,200,000

—

—

6,200,000

Koumains.

4,000,000

—

—

4,000,000

Albanians.

1,600,000

—

—

1,500,000

Tartars

16,000

20,000

—

36,000

Arabs

. —

885,000

3,800,000

4,685,000

Syrians and Chaldeans

—

200,000

—

200,000

Druses

—

80,000

—

80,000

Kurds

—

100,000

—

1,000,000

Turkomans

—

85,000

—

85,000

Gipsies

Total.

214,000

—

—

214,000

15,500,000

16,050,000

3,800,000

35,350 000

The territories of the Turkish empire in Europe are divided into 14 Eyalets, or Governments, and subdivided into 43 Sandjaks, or provinces, and 376 Kazas, or districts. In Turkey in Asia there are 18 Eyalets, 78 Sandjaks, and 858 Kazas; and hi Turkey in Africa, 3 Eyalets, 17 Sandjaks, and 86 Kazas.