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 AREA AND POPULATION

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The area and population by Vilayets, according to an earlier estimate, were as follows : —

Vilayets

Area Sq. Miles

Population

Population per Sq. Mile

Europe :~

'

Constantinople ....

1,505

1,203,000

799

Chatalja (Mutessarifat)

733

60,000

82

Adrianople ....

14,822

1,028,200

69

Salonica .....

13,510

1,1.30,800

84

Monastir ....

11,000

848,900

Kossovo .....

12,700

1,038,100

82

Scutari (Albania)

4,170

294,100

70

Yanina .....

6,910

527,100

76

Total .... Asia Minor:—

65,350

6,130,200

93

Ism id (Mutessarifat).

3,130

222,700

71

Brussa .....

25,400

1,626,800

64

Bigha (Mutessarifat).

2,550

129,-500

51

Archipelago ....

2,660

322,300

121

Smyrna, or Aidin

2,5801

2,500,000

64

Kastamuni ....

19,. 570

961,200

49

Angora .....

27,370

932,800

34

Konia ....

30,410

1,069,000

27

Adana ...

15,400

422,400

27

Sivas

23,970

1,057,500

44

Trebizond ....

16,671

1,265,000

76

Total ....

197,711

10,509,200

47

Armenia and Kurdistan :—

Erzerum .....

19,180

645,700

34

Mamuret-ul-Aziz

12,700

575,200

45

Diarbekr ....

14,480

471,500

32

Bitlis

10,460

398,700

38

Van .....

15,170

379,800

25

Tota ....

71,990

2.470,900

34

Mesopotamia :—

MosM

35,130

500,000

10

Baghdad .....

54,540

900,000

11

Busra .....

53,580

600,000

8

Total ....

143,250

2,000,000

9

Syria :— •

Aleppo .....

33,430

1,500,000

45

Zor (Mutessarifat)

30,110

100,000

3

Syria .....

37,020

1,000,000

27

Beirut .....

6.180

633,500

86

Jerusalem (Mutessarifat)

6^600

341,600

52

Lebanon .....

1,190

200,000

168

Total ....

114,530

3,675,100

33

Arabia : —

Hejas .....

96,500

300,000

3

Yemen .....

73,800

750,000

10

Total ....

170,300

1,050,000

Grand Total.

758,960

23.813,600

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In the European provinces under immediate Turkish rule, Turks (of Finno- Tataric race), Greeks, and Albanians are almost equally numerous, and con- stitute 70 per cent, of the population. Other races represented are Serbs, Bulgarians, Rumanians, Armenians, Magyars, Gipsies, Jews, Circassians. In Asiatic Turkey there is a large Turkish element, with some four million Arabs,