First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
Vilayet of Syria
ولايت سوريه(in Ottoman Turkish) Vilâyet-i Sûriye ولاية سوريا(in Arabic)
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1865–1918
Flag
Vital Cuinet's 1896 map of Syria, showing the Syria Vilayet divided into the sanjaks of Hama, Damascus, Hauran and Ma'an
Capital
Damascus
Population
• 1897[1]
701,812
History
• Established
1865
• Disestablished
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Damascus Eyalet
Sidon Eyalet
Tripoli Eyalet
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
Today part of
Syria Jordan
The Vilayet of Syria[2] (Arabic: ولاية سوريا; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت سوريه, romanized: Vilâyet-i Sûriye),[3] also known as Vilayet of Damascus,[4] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of 62,180 square kilometres (24,009 sq mi), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 1,000,000.[5] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[5]
^Mutlu, Servet. "Late Ottoman population and its ethnic distribution" (PDF). pp. 29–31. Corrected population for Mortality Level=8.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Palestine" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Suriye ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Syria"), Syria vilâyet matbaası, Suriye [Syria], 1300 [1882]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
^Geographical Dictionary of the World in the early 20th Century. Logos Press, New Delhi, 1906. ISBN 8172680120
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