First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
Vilayet of Beirut Arabic: ولاية بيروت Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1888–1917
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Map of the Ottoman Levant showing the Beirut Vilayet and its Sanjaks.
Capital
Beirut
Area
• 1885[1]
30,490 km2 (11,770 sq mi)
Population
• 1885[1]
533,500
History
• Established
1888
• Disestablished
1917
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mount Lebanon Emirate
Tripoli Eyalet
Sidon Eyalet
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
Today part of
Lebanon Israel Palestine Syria
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.[2] It stretched from just north of Jaffa to the port city of Latakia.[3] 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.[1] It was the 4th most heavily populated region of the Ottoman Empire's 36 provinces.[4]
^ abAsia by A. H. Keane, page 460. Note: The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural", depending on the region from which they were gathered.
^Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 87, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
^Bruce Masters (2013-04-29). The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-107-03363-4. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
^Karpat, Kemal H. (1985). Ottoman Population, 1830-1914: Demographic and Social Characteristics. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-299-09160-6. Table IV.2 Population Density per km2, and Density Rank, 1894/95 (R. 1310), Rank 4, with population of 573,000 and density of 45.47 per km2; underlying source IUKTY 9075
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