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Vilayets
SYMA :—
Aleppo . . . .
Zor
Syria . . . .
Beyrouth . . . .
Jerusalem (Mutessarifat) .
Lebanon (privileged Province)
Total (Syria)
ARABIA :—
Hedjaz (approximate)
Yemen „
Total (Arabia)
Total (Asia) .
Africa:—
Tripoli (approximate)
Benghazi „
Total (Africa)
Total .
ABEA AND POPULATION 1127
Area
Sq. Miles
30,340
32,849
23,816
11,773
8,222
2,509
109,509
96,500
i 77,200
!
173,700
650,394
j 398,900
i
398,900
1,115,046
1 Population
995,800
100,000
955,700
533.600
333,000
399,500
3,317,600
\ 300,000
750,000
1,050,000
17,545,300
800,000
500,000
1,300,000
1 24,931,600
Pop.
per Sq.
Mile
31
3
40
44
41
158
30
0
9
6
27
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Accurate ethnological statistics of the population do not exist. In the
European provinces under immediate Turkish rule, Turks (of Finno-Tataric
race), Greeks, and Albanians are almost equally numerous, and constitute 70
per cent, of the population. Other races represented are Serbs, Bulgarians,
Roumanians, Armenians, Magyars, Gipsies, Jews, Circassians. In Asiatic
Turkey there is a large Turkish element, with some four million Arabs, besides
Greeks, Syrians, Kurds, Circassians, Armenians, Jews, and numerous other races.
The population of the chief towns is approximately as follows :—
Constantinople
Salonica
Adrianople
Smyrna
Bagdad
Damascus
Aleppo .
Beirut .
Brussa .
Kaisarieh
Kerbela.
1,125,000
105,000
81,000
201,000
145,000
140,500
127,150
118,800
76,303
72,000
65,000
Mosul .
Mecca .
Medineh
Adana .
Koniah .
Sivas
Jerusalem
Erzerum
Bitlis .
Trebizond
Diarbekr
3
22
61,000
60,000
48,000
45,000
44,000
43,100
42,000
38,900
38,800
35,000
34,000
The Lebanon is governed by a Mutessarif (Christian), and has a special
government. Its population is reckoned at 245,000 or about 111 per square
mile.
10.1057/9780230270305 - The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by John Scott-Keltie
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