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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES

Vilaj'ets

Area Sq. Miles

Population

Pop. per Sq.

Mile

Syria : —

Aleppo

Zor

Syria

Beyrouth ..... Jerusalem (Mutessarifat). Lebanon (privileged Province).

30,340 32,849 23,816 11,773 8,222 2,509

995,800 100,000 350,000 533.600 333,000 399,500

31 3 16 44 41 158

Total (Syria)

Arabia : — Hedjaz (approximate) Yemen ,,. .

109,509

2,711,900

25

96,500 77,200

300,000 750,000

3

14

Total (Arabia)

173,700

1,050,000

6

Total (Asia).

Africa : —

Tripoli (approximate). ) Benghazi ,,, \

650,097

16,823,500

26

398,900

800,000 500,000

} ^

Total (Africa)

398,900

1,300,000

3

Total ....

1,111,741

23,834,500

21

1

Accurate ethnological statistics of the population do not exist. In the European provinces under immediate Turkish rule, Turks (of Finno-Tataric race), Greeks, and Albanians are almost eq[ually numerous, and constitute 70 per cent, of the population. Other races represented are Serbs, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Armenians, Magyars, Gipsies, Jews, Circassians. In Asiatic Turkey there is a large Turkish element, with some four million Arabs, besides Greeks, Syrians, Kurds, Circassians, Armenians, Jews, and numerous otlier races.

In 1885 the population of Constantinople was 873,565. The estimated populations of the other largest towns are as follows : — Salonica, 150,000 ; Adrianople, 70,886; Monastir, 45,000 ; Scutari, 30,000; Janina, 20,000; Smyrna, 200,000 ; Damascus, 150,000 ; Bagdad, 145,000 ; Aleppo, 127,000 ; Beyrout, 120,000; P^rzcroum, 60,000; Kaisarieh, 72,000; Keibela, 65,000; Mossul, 61,000 ; Arta, 55,000; Sivas, 43,000; Mecca, 60,000; Trebizond, 35,000; Adana, 45,000; Diarbekir, 35,000; Broussa, 76,000; Angora, 28,000; Van, 30,000; Jedda, 30,000; Jerusalem, 41,000; Konieh, 45,000; Bitlis, 39,000 ; Tripoli, 30,000.

The Lel)anon is governed Ijy a Mutessarif (Christian), and has a special government. Its population is reckoned at 245,000 or about 111 per square mile.

Religion and Education. Mahometans form the vast majority of the pojiulation in Asiatic Turkey, but only one-half of the population in European