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 AREA AND POPULATION

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the financial clauses of the Treaty. But an, since the concessions were suggested, hostilities hare broken out between Greece and Turkey (still continuing May, H-»21, it is doubtful whether the new proposals of March, 1921, will stand.

Turkey will be deprired of a probable area of 438,750 square miles, and of a population of al>out 12,000,000. The area of New Turkey will thus be 174,900 square mi es, and the population about 8,000,000.

In the following table the area and jwpulation of Old Turkey are shown: —

Vilayets 1

Area Sq. Miles

Population

Population

. Mile

Europe: —

Constantinople ....

1,605

1,208,000

N

Chatalja (''Independent " Sanjak).

733

82

Adrianople ....

8,644

GlO.OuO

77

Total ....

10,582

.000

187

Asia Minor :—

Isuiid (" Independent" Sanjak)

8,180

-700

71

Brussa .....

25,400

1,026,800

64

Bigha (" Independent " Sanjak)

2,550

129,500

51

Sinrroa. or Aidiu

IMOI

2,500,000

64

Kastaniuni ....

19,570

961,200

Angcrm .....

27.370

932,800

34

Konia .....

39,410

1,069,000

27

Adana .....

15,400

422,400

27

SiTis

23.970

1,057.500

44

Trebizond ....

16,671

1,265,000

76

Total ....

199,272

10 : 196,900

52

Armenia and Kurdistan : —

Erzerum .....

19.1S0

645,700

34

Mamuret-ul-Azix

12,700

575.200

45

Diarbekr .....

14,480

471.500

32

Bitlis

10,460

398,700

38

Van .....

15.170

379,300

25

Total ...

71,990

2,470,900

34

Mesopotamia : —

Mosul

35,130

500,000

10

Bagdad .....

54,540

900,000

11

Basra

53,530

600,000

8

Total ....

143,250

2,000,000

9

Syria :-

Aleppo .....

33,430

1,500,000

45

Zor (*■ Independent" Sanjak)

30,110

100,000

Syria

37,020

1,000,000

Beirut

6.180

533,500

86

Jerusalem (" Independent" Sanjak)

6,60o

341,600

Lebanon .....

1,190

200,000

1M

Total ....

114,530

3,675,100

33

Arabia : —

Yemen .....

73,800

750,000

10

Grand Total.

613,724

20,973,900

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• This table does not take account of the most recent administrative changes, by which several Sanjaks hare been detached from the Vilayets named in it and made " Inde- pendent"; nor of the erection in 1914 of the Xt .id. including the coast district of Kl- Hassa into a so-called Vilayet as the result of a political arrangement with the real ruler Abdul-Aziz Bin Saud, who was formally appointed VMi.