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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES

man of the foreign consulate being present to see that the trial be according to the law ; the carrying out of the sentence, if against the foreigner, to be through his consulate. Cases between two foreign subjects of different nationalities are tried in the court of the defendant.

Grand Vizier. — Khalil Rifaat Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.

Sheik-ul-Islam.—Jemalledi'n Effendi, appointed September, 1891.

Minister of Interior. — Memduh Pasha.

Minister for Foreign Affairs. — Tewfk Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.

Minister for War. — Biza Pasha.

Minister of Marine. — Hassan Veoihsi.

Minister of Finance. — Reshad Bey.

Minister of Justice. — Ahdurrahma^i Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.

Public Works and Commerce. — Zihni Pasha {cid interim).

Public Instruction. — Zuhdi Pasha.

President of the Council of State. — So/id Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.

Area and Population.

The total area of the Ottoman Empire (including States nominally subject) may be estimated at 1,576,700 square miles, and its total population at about 38,791,000, viz. : —

Square Miles

Population

Immediate possessions : — Europe .......

Asia

Africa. .

Bulgaria (including Eastern Roumelia) au- tonomous ......

Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Novibazar — under Austria-Hungary ....

Crete

Samos — tributary principality

Egypt (1897)

62,744 650,097 398,900

5,711,000

16,823,500

1,300,000

1,111,741

23,834,500

37,860

23,570

3,326

180

400,000

3,309,816

1,568,092

294,190

49,733

9,734,405

Total ....

464,936

14,956,236

1,576,677

38,790,736