ولايت ادرنه Vilâyet-i Edirne |
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Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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Edirne Vilayet in 1900 | |||||
Capital | Edirne | ||||
History | |||||
• | Established | 1867 | |||
• | Disestablished | 1922 | |||
Population | |||||
• | Muslim, 1914 | 360,411 | |||
• | Greek, 1914 | 224,680 | |||
• | Armenian, 1914 | 19,773 | |||
• | Jewish, 1914 | 22,515 | |||
Today part of |
Turkey Greece Bulgaria |
The Vilayet of Adrianople or Vilayet of Edirne (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ادرنه, Vilâyet-i Edirne) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire.
This vilayet was split between Turkey and Greece in 1923, culminating in the formation of Western and Eastern Thrace after World War I as part of the Treaty of Lausanne. A small portion of the Vilayet was given to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Bucharest (1913) after the Balkan wars. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 26,160 square miles (67,800 km2). In the east it bordered with the Istanbul Vilayet, the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, in the west with the Salonica Vilayet, in the north with Eastern Rumelia (Bulgaria since 1885) and in the south with the Aegean Sea. Sometimes the area is described also as Southern Thrace, or Adrianopolitan Thrace.
After the city of Edirne (pop. in 1905 about 80,000), the principal towns were Tekirdağ (35,000), Gelibolu (25,000), Kırklareli (16,000), İskeçe (14,000), Çorlu (11,500), Dimetoka (10,000), Enez (8000), Gümülcine (8000) and Dedeağaç (3000).