Manastir Vilayet

ولايت مناستر‎ Vilâyet-i Manastır
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1874–1877 1879–1912 →   →   →
Manastir Vilayet in 1900
Capital		Manastir[1]
History
•	Established	1874
•	Disestablished	1912
Population
•	1911[2]	1,069,789
Today part of		Albania  Macedonia  Greece  Kosovo

The Vilayet of Manastir^[3] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت مناستر, Vilâyet-i Manastır‎)^[4] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879.^[5] The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Serbia,^[5] with some parts later becoming part of the newly established Principality of Albania.

Administrative divisions

Initially the Manastir Vilayet had the following sanjaks:^[6]

• Sanjak of Manastir
• Sanjak of Prizren
• Sanjak of Üsküb
• Sanjak of Dibra
• Sanjak of Scutari

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:^[7]

• Sanjak of Manastir: Kazas of Manastir (Bitola), Pirlepe (Prilep), Florina, Kıraçova (Kičevo) and Ohrid.
• Sanjak of Serfiğe (Between 1864-1867 and 1873–1892): Kazas of Serfiçe (modern Servia), Kozana (modern Kozani), Alasonya (modern Elasson), Kayalar (Ptolemaida), Nasliç (modern Neapolis, Kozani) and Grebne (modern Grevena).
• Sanjak of Dibra: Kazas of Debre-i Bala (Debar), Mat, Debre-i Zir (Its center was Piskopoya), Rakalar (region around river Radika (its local name is River region (Macedonian: Река).
• Sanjak of Elbasan (İlbasan): Kazas of İlbasan, Grameç and Peklin.
• Sanjak of Görice: Kazas of Görice (Korçë), İstarova (Pogradec), Kolonya (Erseke) (Its center was Ersek) and Kesriye (Kastoria).

References

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 Edition, Monastir.
2. Teaching Modern Southeast European History. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
3.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Macedonia". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
4. Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 [1875]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
5. Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German) 13. Reichert. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9783920153568.
6. Gjurmime albanologjike (in Serbian). Pristina: Albanološki institut u Prištini. 1968. p. 177. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
7. http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908

External links

•  "Monastir". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
• Media related to Vilayet of Monastir at Wikimedia Commons