Beirut Vilayet

Beirut Vilayeti
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1888–1917 →
Beirut Vilayet in 1900
Capital		Beirut
History
•	Established	1888
•	Disestablished	1917
Area
•	1885	30,490 km2 (11,772 sq mi)
Population
•	1885	533,500
	Density	17.5 /km2  (45.3 /sq mi)
Today part of		Lebanon Israel Syria Palestine

The Vilayet of Beirut 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. It stretched from just north of Jaffa to the port city of Latakia. 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. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the vilayet:

1. Latakia Sanjak
2. Tripoli Sanjak
3. Beirut Sanjak
4. Akka Sanjak
5. Nablus Sanjak

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  Map of Ottoman Levant

• Ottoman Asia (partial, 1893).jpg

  1893 map of administrative divisions of Ottoman Asia

See also

• Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate

References

 

External links

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