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Vilayet of Adrianople

ولايت ادرنه
Vilâyet-i Edirne
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire

1867–1922
 

 

Location of Edirne Vilayet
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).


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