- Source: Beirut vilayet
The Vilayet of Beirut (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت, romanized: Vilâyet-i Beyrut; Arabic: ولاية بيروت) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It was established from the coastal areas of the Syria Vilayet in 1888 as a recognition of the new-found importance of its then-booming capital, Beirut, which had experienced remarkable growth in the previous years — by 1907, Beirut handled 11 percent of the Ottoman Empire's international trade. It stretched from just north of Jaffa to the port city of Latakia. It was bounded by the Syria Vilayet to the east, the Aleppo Vilayet to the north, the autonomous Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of 11,773 square miles (30,490 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 533,500. It was the 4th most heavily populated region of the Ottoman Empire's 36 provinces.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the vilayet:
Latakia Sanjak
Tripoli Sanjak
Beirut Sanjak
Akka Sanjak
Nablus Sanjak
Maps
See also
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
References
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beirut" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
Media related to Beirut Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Vilayet Edirne
- Vilayet Diyarbekir
- Vilayet Ioannina
- Vilayet Kosovo
- Sanjak Akka
- Tripolitania Utsmaniyah
- Suriah Utsmaniyah
- Eyalet Damaskus
- Pemerintahan Pendudukan Wilayah Musuh
- Kesultanan Utsmaniyah
- Beirut vilayet
- Syria vilayet
- Vilayet
- Ottoman Syria
- Acre Sanjak
- Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
- Galilee
- Nablus Sanjak
- Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
- Beirut (disambiguation)