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
34
• 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.
