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,
