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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
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Total (Africa)
398,900
1,300,000
3
Total ....
1,111,741
23,834,500
21
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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
