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1128 TURKEY ANT) TRIBUTARY STATES
Keligion and Education.
Mahometans form the vast majority of the population in
Asiatic Turkey, but only one-half of the population in European
Turkey. Recognised by the Turkish Government are the
adherents of seven non-Mahometan creeds—namely : 1. Latins,
Franks, or Catholics, who use the Roman Liturgy, consisting of
the descendants of the Genoese and Venetian settlers in the
empire, and proselytes among Armenians; Bulgarians, and others ;
2. Greeks; 3. Armenians; 4. Syrians and United Chaldeans;
5. Maronites, under a Patriarch at Kanobin in Mount Lebanon;
6. Protestants, consisting of converts chiefly among the Armenians
; 7. Jews. These seven religious denominations are invested
with the privilege of possessing their own ecclesiastical rule.
The Bishops and Patriarchs of the Greeks and Armenians, and
the ' Chaeham-Baschi,' or high-rabbi of the Jews, possess, in
consequence of those functions, considerable influence.
The following shows the population of Constantinople (1885),
arranged in order of religious beliefs, viz.: Mussulmans, 384,910 ;
Greeks, 152,741; Armenians, 149,590; Bulgarians, 4,377;
Roman Catholics (native), 6,442; Greek Latins, 1,082; Protestants
(native), 819; Jews, 44,361; Foreigners, 129,243.
Total, 873,565. In the Turkish Islands of the iEgean Sea
the population is mostly Christian: 296,800 Christians to
27,200 Mussulmans. In various parts of Asiatic Turkey
the estimates are: Asia Minor, Mussulmans, 7,179,900
Armenians, 576,200; other Christians, 972,300; Jews,