Monastir Province, Ottoman Empire

ولايت مناستر‎ Vilâyet-i Manastır
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1874–1877 1879–1912 →   →   →
Manastir Vilayet in 1900
Capital		Manastir
History
•	Established	1874
•	Disestablished	1912
Population
•	1911	1,069,789
Today part of		Albania  Republic of Macedonia  Greece

The Vilayet of Manastir (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت مناستر, Vilâyet-i Manastır‎) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879. The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Serbia, with some parts later becoming part of the newly established Principality of Albania.

Initially the Manastir Vilayet had the following sanjaks:

After administrative reforms in 1867 and 1877 some parts of the Manastir Vilayet were ceded to newly established Scutari Vilayet (1867) and Kosovo Vilayet (1877).

Administrative divisions of Manastir Vilayet until 1912:

According to Russian consul in the Manastir Vilayet, A. Rostkovski, finishing the statistical article in 1897, the total population was 803,340, with Rostkovski grouping the population into the following groups:

According to an estimation published in a Belgian magazine, the ethnic composition in 1912 when the vilayet was dissolved during the First Balkan War was:

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