Ottoman Population 1890 S

Ottoman Population Records and the Census of 1881/82-1893
Author(s): Kemal H. Karpat

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Int. J. Middle East Stud. 9 (1978), 237-274. Printed in Great Britain 237
Kemal H. Karpat
OTTOMAN POPULATION RECORDS AND

THE CENSUS OF 1881/82-1893
I. INTRODUCTION
Population movements have always played a dynamic role in the transformation

of human society throughout history. Indeed, there is not a single phase of
history anywhere in the world which has not been related in some way to low or
high rates of birth and mortality, to migration and settlement and to their social,
cultural, economic, and political effects. The history of the Middle East supplies
excellent examples to support this contention. The Muslim calendar begins with
an act of migration, that is the hejira of A.D. 622. Migrants going from the
countryside to urban centers or fleeing from areas hostile to Islam have always
exerted a crucial influence upon the social and political destiny of Muslim
countries. The refugees from Spain to North Africa in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, the forced migration of Muslims from Russia (the Caucasus and
Crimea) in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, the shift of population in India,
Pakistan, and Palestine in the I940s, to cite just a few examples, have been
major factors accounting, at least in part, for the social transformation of
the Muslim world in general, and of the Middle East in particular.
The sociopolitical and economic history of the Middle East in the nineteenth
century was in large measure the consequence of major population movements
which produced increased social mobility, changed rates of birth and mortality,
intensified rural migration, and generated a variety of related changes. Yet,
despite their obvious importance, population movements in the Middle East
have not been studied yet within a broad historical and conceptual framework.
The few existing studies deal essentially with isolated demographic problems
ignoring conveniently their broader historical, political, and regional dimensions.
Few scholars nowadays seem to have the time and patience to pore over hundreds
of documents for months on end in dusty archives to extract information that
can be condensed in a few pages and may remain long unnoticed or unappreciated.
It is understandable, therefore, that considerable ingenuity and imagination
have been invested in devising 'concepts', 'theories', and 'models' to explain in a
few pages the entire history and transformation of a society. In some cases these
'theorists' have made sweeping false assertions while interpreting certain Middle
East situations based on preconceived Western concepts or on scattered impres-
I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to Hayri Mutlucag, Eric Bingen, and Hulya
Sowerwine whose assistance was instrumental in preparing this study.

238 Kemal Karpat
sions regardless of limitations imposed by culture, historical experience, and

goals on the range of their applicability. Yet, paradoxical as it may sound, a
major shortcoming of Middle East social studies in general and of population
studies in particular derives from the lack of concepts and theories capable of
expressing the social and historical experience of the Middle East within its own
value system and patterns of change and acculturation. One should add im-
mediately that the development of such concepts and theories depends first on
the accumulation ot suitable empirical data. Anyone attempting to study popu-
lation problems in the Middle East, especially with relation to more precise
topics such as the rate of fertility, mortality, or family size in a given period of
history or region, is faced with insufficient data on the size of population, and
knowledge about procedures for registering births and deaths. Indeed, the studies
on the history of population in the Middle East, besides failing to apply methods
and techniques adapted to its own sociocultural conditions, suffer also from lack
of information on the size of its population, census, and population registration
methods. The archives in the area, especially those in Istanbul and Ankara,
contain a large body of materials dealing with the size of the population and its
registration systems. But little, if any, of this material has been sorted out and
used to study specific demographic problems.1 Therefore, the first task facing the
scholars interested in the social history and the transformation of the Middle
East, southeast Europe, and North Africa is to assemble, systematize, and analyze
the population data available in the Turkish archives and other places and to
study also the procedures used in gathering these data. This is particularly true
for the nineteenth century when population movements influenced more than
ever the social and political transformation of the Ottoman state, that is, of the
Middle East and the Balkans, and knowledge about the size of its population
became a vital administrative necessity for the government.
There is no dearth of writings concerning the population of the Ottoman
Empire in the nineteenth century, but most of these are ethnographic works. It
1 There are exceptions to this statement. In addition to 0. L. Barkan's works mentioned
later, see M. A. Cook, Population Pressure in Rural Anatolia: I450-I600 (London, I971);
Ronald J. Jennings, 'Urban Population in Anatolia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study
of Kayseri, Karaman, Amasya, Trabzon, and Erzurum', International Journal of Middle
East Studies, 7, i (Jan. I976), 2I-57; Wolf-Dieter Hutteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah,
Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late i6th
Century (Erlanger I977). A survey of the bibliography on Ottoman population in the
nineteenth century is in Engin Akarli, 'The Ottoman Population in the Nineteenth
Century', M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin (Madison, I970). See also Marc Pinson,
'Demographic Warfare: An Aspect of Ottoman and Russian Policy, I854-1866', Ph.D.
diss. (Harvard, I970). Source material concerning population figures in the nineteenth
century can be found in special statistics published by the Ottoman government in its
Yearbooks, Devleti Aliye Salnameleri, or Salname for short, 68 vols., I847-I918. For
further bibliographical information see Kemal H. Karpat, The Gecekondu, Rural Migra-
tion and Urbanization (New York, 1976), and idem, 'Ottoman Immigration Policies and
Settlement in Palestine', Settler Regimes in Africa and the Arab World, I. Abu-Lughod
and B. Abu-Laban, eds. (Wilmette, Ill., 1974), pp. 57-72. For a general survey of current
population studies, see Georges Sabagh, 'The Demography of the Middle East', Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin 4, 2 (I5 May, I970), I-I9.

Ottoman Population Records and the Census of I881/82-I893 239
is true that these are, in a way, indispensable to any study dealing with the popu-
lation of the Ottoman state in the nineteenth century. The value of most of them,
however, is undermined by at least three shortcomings. First, only a few of these
studies are based on reliable statistical information stemming from actual counts
of population. Second, they often were undertaken by Western observers to
advocate the case of certain ethnic or religious groups and, besides demonstrating
an appalling lack of information on practically every aspect of Muslim life, they
reflected the political biases of the scholars involved or of their informants.
Third, most of them dealt with the European part of the Ottoman state and often
left Anatolia and the Arab-speaking countries unaccounted for. In fact, after
most of the Balkans became independent in 1878, thus achieving the hidden
purpose behind the manipulation of some population statistics, the number of
studies on the Ottoman population dropped spectacularly.
The best examples illustrating the above points are found in the monumental
five-volume bibliographical work by Nicholas V. Michoff.2 The essence of this
work is in the first volume. The rest comprise additional titles omitted in the first.
The fifth and last volume deals with Russian works dedicated to population
problems in the Ottoman state. Michoff's study was undertaken in part to
justify the Bulgarian claims to nationhood and, indirectly, to advance the
Bulgarian claims to Macedonia, and to refute the Greek and Serbian efforts to
regard the Bulgarians as part of their own groups. Though a permanent historical
source and a monument to Michoff's dedication to industrious scholarship, the
work has basic weaknesses. The first four volumes include the titles of 3,050
books and articles together with extracts containing statistics and information
on Bulgarian history and society. These titles include 1,126 citations from
the German, 1,123 from French, 731 from English, 63 from Italian, and the
rest from other European languages, but absolutely none from Turkish. The work
includes practically no direct quotations from the official Ottoman censuses, except
a reference to Salahaddin Bey's figures, although Michoff refers to writings and
figures given by Western authors who used Ottoman statistics, such as David
Urquhart, A. Ubicini, and A. Boue, and to statisticians and demographers
such as E. G. Ravenstein and H. Kutschera. It is interesting to note that
Michoff finds the scarcity of official censuses in the Ottoman state a normal
occurrence since even Europe itself did not begin to conduct regular
and systematic censuses until early in the nineteenth century. Michoff
notes that many of the authors he cited estimated the Ottoman population
according to their own subjective judgements or false information supplied
by natives. As an example, Michoff cites the fact that travelers estimated the total
number of Bulgarians in 1800-78 as varying between 500,000 and 8 million
people. A similar misrepresentation had been noted earlier by W. Eton who
dismissed the claim by the Greeks that they numbered 8 million people at the
2 Nicholas
(Nicolas) V. Michoff (Mikhov), Naseleniento na Turtsiia i Bulgarii, prez
XVIII-XIX, La Population de la Turquie et de la Bulgarie atl XVIIIe et au XIXe siecles,
5 vols. (Sofia, 1915, 1924, 1923, 1935, 1968).

240 Kemal Karpat
end of the eighteenth century.3 Many of these inflated figures were put out in
order to back the claims of these ethnic groups to nationhood. V. Teplov, for
instance, who undertook a study of the Balkan population under the auspices of
the Russian government, used in addition to the Salnames issued by the Otto-
man government, information supplied by churches and native informants. On
the basis of such materials, he concluded arbitrarily that a Muslim family had 5
members while the non-Muslim family had 6-9.37 members.4 The fallacy of
these estimates is clearly shown in an actual count of family members undertaken
by W. L. Stoney in the Philippopoli (Plovdiv) area of Bulgaria in I877. To
answer the request of some Englishmen demanding accurate information on
family size in Bulgaria, Stoney, a British consular official, surveyed 50,622
people or o, I 10 families, in 55 villages having a predominantly Bulgarian popu-
lation and arrived at the conclusion that each had an average of 5,007 members.5
In view of the questionable statistical bases of these ethnographic studies it is
absolutely necessary to go to the basic sources on the Ottoman population in the
nineteenth century. The Salnames contained official population figures, but
these derived from more complete census figures which were seldom made fully
public. These Ottoman censuses provide by far the most reliable figures
available concerning the population of the Middle East and the Balkans in the
nineteenth century. There is no question that they had shortcomings. The first
censuses were based on counts of individual hanes or families which in a number
of cases were households composed of several nuclear families. At times, only
the taxable males or those able to perform military service were included in
censuses. Some of the early counts, especially of non-Muslims, were taken from
information of varying accuracy supplied by communal heads or local officials.
Yet, despite all these shortcomings, the official Ottoman censuses still supply
useful data because their margin of error was far less than the figures given by
observers, travellers, and biased informants, as shown by various comparative
tables. There are several arguments that sustain the value of these censuses. As
indicated later, they had to be accurate and complete since they provided the
only factual basis available to the government for levying taxes and conscripting
men into the army. The government itself constantly tried to improve its census
results by introducing new methods, seeking the advice of outside experts, and
using European models.
The purpose of the present article, part of an extensive research project
on Ottoman population movements and their sociopolitical effects, is to study
briefly the Ottoman census, the evolution of its methods, and the establishment of
a permanent registration system, and to put forth the most reliable results of all this
effort: statistical tables of the Ottoman population in 1893. These tables are
based on a census which began in i881/82, and include extensive quantitative
3 W. Eton, A
Survey of the Turkish Empire (London, I799). For another effort to show
the Armenian Catholics as more numerous than their actual number, see n. 49.
4 V. Teplov, Materialy Dlya Statistikii Bolgarii, Trakii i Makedonii (St. Petersburg,
I877).
5 Great
Britain, House of Come,. ms, Accounts and Papers, vol. 92 (1877), p. I4.

Ottoman Population Records and the Census of I88I/82-I893 24I
information concerning the population of the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle

East, and, somewhat less, North Africa. The value of this census becomes self-
evident when its figures are contrasted and compared with the random estimates
and the plain guessing that formed the basis of most studies made on the Ottoman
population in the nineteenth century.
II. PLACE AND FUNCTION OF CENSUSES AND POPULATION REGISTERS

IN THE MODERNIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT
Population censuses, land surveys, and eventually the permanent population

register system were of vital importance for the Ottoman government in the
nineteenth century. Centralization forced it to assume new administrative
responsibilities which depended on an accurate knowledge of the empire's
human and financial resources. Indeed, the recruitment of a modern army and its
organization into active and reserve units relied on accurate information
concerning the number and age of the male population. The conscription
system introduced by Mahmut II in 1838 for Muslims, and then the general
conscription introduced in 1855 but never applied to Christians, and finally
the division of the male Muslim population into four service groups could have
been carried out only if assisted by a sound registration system.
Muslim males were divided into four age groups, and their military obligations
were defined accordingly. The first was the muazzaf, or the active duty group,
whose obligations began at the age of twenty and lasted for four years; the
second was the ihtiyat, or active reserve group, under duty for two years; the
third was the redif, or inactive reserve group, which was under obligation to
serve for fourteen years; and the fourth was the mustahfiz, or territorial or local
militia group, kept for four years.6 A male Muslim thus was under some sort of
military obligation for twenty-four years. It is quite understandable, therefore,
that the military was the first to show keen interest in population records and to
put major pressure on the sultan and the government to undertake censuses and
establish a regular population registration system. In fact, army officers took
active roles in the Ottoman censuses and kept their own registers for the Mus-
lims and cooperated closely with civilian population officials throughout the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The importance of conducting new population censuses and establishing a
modern register stemmed also from the need to find new sources of revenue to
finance the modern army and a variety of new administrative functions assumed
by the government. This was particularly true in the case of the non-Muslims
who paid the jizye (head tax) which was converted in I857 into the bedelat-z
askeriye (tax instead of military service). Many non-Muslim communities used
old records to show their numbers as low as possible so as to pay the least pos-
6 The service duration of the last two categories was seven and eight years respectively
when the system was first introduced in 1848. See Stanford J. Shaw and Ezel K. Shaw,
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Vol. II (New York, I977), p. o00.

242 Kemal Karpat
sible tax. The government, therefore, became keenly interested in updating its
records of the non-Muslim population by using its own personnel rather than
relying on the figures given by communal heads.7 This issue acquired special
urgency after a series of old taxes were abolished by Mahmut II and the tax
revenues showed a sharp drop.
The knowledge of the size and change in the composition of the population
became important also for administrative reasons, especially in the second
half of the nineteenth century, as roads, railways, bridges, irrigation schemes,
and a variety of professional schools were planned in accordance with popula-
tion density.
The growing importance attached to accurate population censuses and stat-
istics comes clearly out of a report by the $uray-1 Devlet (Council of State)
concerning the census of I88I/82.8 The Council stated:
It is a duty to mention before everything else that the interest of a government in
compilation of systematic population statistics does not stem solely from military
considerations.To know the exact numberof its own populationis a great achievement
in matters of order and regularityfor a government interested in law, property safe-
guards, financial stability, and municipal order and security. The European States
attach great and continuous care to the collection and distribution of informationon
the [entire]population. It is imperative,urgent, and essential for us to accomplishthis
importanttask [census and registration]in a perfect fashion.9
This keen interest of the Ottoman government in the adoption of modern
statistical methods was shown also during a reception given for the American
ambassador in I886, when he spoke about a recently concluded census in the
United States and was asked for assistance.10
7 These communities often paid less than their number would warrant. The number of
non-Muslims once established remained unchanged for long periods for lack of proper
registers to follow population changes. For instance, Rev. William Jowett mentions the
fact that the population of Mount Athos consisted of about 6,ooo people but 'they pay
to the Turks as for three thousands' (Richard Clogg, 'Two Accounts of the Academy of
Ayvalek [Kydonies] in I818-1919', Revue des etudes sud-est europeennes, Io0, 4 [1972],
652).
8 The correspondence referred to in this article took place between the Mabeyni
Humayun (Secretariat of the Imperial Palace) and the Sadaret, the Premier's office, or
Porte. Reports and regulations on population were issued by the $uray-i Devlet, the
Council of State, either through its Tanzimat Bureau or its General Council (*uray-i
Devlet Umumi Heyeti). The references to correspondence are henceforth shortened as M
to S or vice versa, that is, from the Palace to the Prime Minister (Mabeyni Humayun'dan
Sadarete), followed by the date of communication, the archival reference, such as Basve-
kalet Ar?ivi (BA), and the latter's respective section and number. Although most of
the documents used in this study have both the hijri (H) and mali or rumi (R) years
(about one or two years difference between them) we shall give only the hijri data followed
by the miladi, or solar calendar date (A.D.).
9 Report of
*uray-i Devlet, Tanzimat Dairesi, No. 438, 2I Cemaziyulevvel I248 (2i
April i88I), BA, Irade, $uray-i Devlet, 3148.
10 During the reception, Ambassador S. S. Cox, who replaced General Lewis Wallace,
the author of Ben Hur, mentioned that the United States had compiled new population
statistics which were of great use to his country and suggested that such statistics would
be useful also to the Ottoman government. He was told that an actual census (the one

Ottoman Population Records and the Census of I88I/82-I893 243
III. THE OTTOMAN CENSUSES AND POPULATION ADMINISTRATION IN

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The topic of this study is the census of 1881/82-1893. Since this census and
the population registration system developed at this date represent the culmina-
tion of an evolutionary process, it is necessary to trace their development from
the beginning. Census taking was a well-established Ottoman tradition. The
early Ottoman governments took censuses and conducted property surveys
after each new territory was conquered, and repeated the process regularly at
thirty-year intervals.1 This tradition was apparently abandoned in the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries, although there is some evidence to the con-
trary.12 Yet it is basic to remember that until the nineteenth century the Ottoman
under discussion in this article) was being conducted. The sultan asked the ambassador
to send him a statistical review found in the American Embassy. Eventually, the ambas-
sador sent with the interpreter of the Embassy two volumes of the review for translation
into Turkish. The sultan told the ambassador that he was very interested in such works
and pointed out that it was his high hope to compile a complete and systematic statistical
record of the entire population in his realm and that he had issued an order to this effect
(M to S, Letter by the sultan's private secretary, Sureyya, of 21 Cemaziyulevvel 1303
(Feb. 25, i886), BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 77419).
All this is confirmed by the American Ambassador, Samuel S. Cox, who, as the Chair-
man of the Census Committee, was instrumental in passing the census legislation in the
U.S. Congress. In his memoirs he writes:' In some meetings which I had with the Sultan,
and in reply to his curiosity as to the miraculous growth of our own land in population
and resources, I told him that the only way in which he could possibly understand our
advancement would be to take the salient points out of our Census reports, and especially
the Tenth Census (I88o), have them suitably translated, and apply them to his own land.
He would thus see what an advertisement a good census would be of the vast resources of
his own empire.'
According to Cox the sultan was presented later with census data and concluded that
'with such data for administrative policies we [Americans] could not be other than
prosperous'. Cox continues: 'The Sultan with intelligent grasp, comprehends their
[census data] utility, and the need of their application to his own country. Then he
reminds me of our conversation about a census for his own country, and said that he had
directed his Grand Vizier, Kiamil Pasha, to organize a commission to begin the work. He
was anxious as to its costs.... He asked me if I would aid it by my advice, when the
commission was formed. To which I responded that, consistent with my duties to my
country and health, I would do so, if the President did not object. The law, the instruc-
tions to superintendents, enumerators, and blanks for returns, and the modus operandi of
special experts, were fully detailed by the printed papers in the envelopes which were in
the box. These envelopes he sealed with his own hand, and gave them direction at once.
So that probably Turkey may, if peace prevail, have a census of her own' (S. S. Cox,
Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey [New York, I887], pp. 37, 44).
11The Ottoman censuses of population and surveys of the land in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries are known from 0. L. Barkan's pioneering works: 'Tarihi Demografi
Ara?tirmalarl ve Osmanli Tarihi', Tarih Mecmuasi, 10 (1953); 'Essai sur les donne'es
statistiques des registres de recensement dans l'Empire Ottoman au XVe et XVIe
siecles', Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, I, I (Aug. 1957), 9-21; and
'Research on the Ottoman Fiscal Surveys', in Studies in the Economic History of the Middle
East, M. A. Cook, ed. (London, I970), pp. I63-17I. See also LeilaErder, 'The Measure-
ment of Preindustrial Population Changes: The Ottoman Empire from the Fifteenth to
the Seventeenth Century', Middle Eastern Studies, iI (3 Oct. 1975), 284-301.
12 I believe that further research in the Ottoman archives may yield substantial infor-

244 Kemal Karpat
government never developed a regular population registration system to record

births, deaths, and migrations, as was done in some parish registers in Western
Europe and England. The birth, death, and marriage registers supposedly kept
by some Ottoman non-Muslim communities, to my knowledge, have never been
unearthed.
The first Ottoman government census in the nineteenth century took place in
1831-38 but it covered only certain parts of the empire and was based on a count
of households, not individuals.'3 At this time, individuals were given a miurur
tezkeresi (travel certificate) in order to prevent mass migration and to keep track
of substantial increases which were taking place in the population. After the
proclamation of the Tanzimat Edict in 1839, a second, but partial, census was
conducted in I844, despite considerable popular opposition, in an effort to
provide statistical information on population, land, and revenue as a basis for
the forthcoming reforms.14 This census has not been published in its entirety,
but much of it is known in piecemeal form from the works of A. Ubicini and
Eugene Bore who, while questioning its total accuracy, were convinced that its
figures were essentially correct but made their own adjustments of the final
results.s1 It is important to note that Ubicini, Urquhart, Bore, and other Euro-
pean observers who knew the language and were familiar with conditions in the
Ottoman Empire and its bureaucracy accepted as reliable the figures given by the
Ottoman officials. Actually, the census that was started in 1844 continued well
beyond this date as the government tried also to count the nomadic tribes, as
indicated by the appointment of census officials in the vilayets of Aydin and
Mentese, in i85i,16 and by some other efforts to expand further the census taken
in Cyprus in 1857.17
mation on population figures, even for the later centuries. The existing records on taxa-
tion and the distribution of miri (state) land to cultivators could yield excellent figures on
the Ottoman population in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. For instance, the
yoklamas, censuses of the timars in 1596, i6o6, I672, I691, I694, I698, and 1715
indicate that the tradition was not abandoned altogether. These surveys show a contin-
uous preoccupation with the size of cultivable lands, at least with those given as fiefs to the
sipahis, and with their revenue. See V. P. Mutafcieva-Str. Dimitrov, Sur l'tat du
systeme des timars des XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles (Sofia, I968).
13 Enver Ziya Karal, Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nda Ilk Niifus Sayimi, 183I (Ankara,
I943).
14 'Traduction d'un memorandum de la Sublime-Porte, adresse aux missions etrangeres
a Constantinople, et relatif au recensement general decrete par S. Hautesse', Le Moniteur
Universel, 248 (4 Sept. 1844).
15 A. Ubicini, Lettres sur la Turquie (Paris, I853). Eugene Bor6, Almanach de l'Empire
ottoman pour l'annee I849 et I850 (Constantinople, I849-I850).
16 The census of the nomadic tribes in these two provinces was carried out by army
officers belonging to the units stationed in the area (S to M, Letter of 7 Sefer I268 [2
Dec. I85i], BA, Irade, Dahiliye, I4855). See also F. Kanitz, Donau-Bulgarien und der
Balkan, 3 vols. (Leipzig, I875); idem, La Bulgarie danubienne et le Balkan: Etudes de
voyages, I86o-i88o (Paris, i882).
17 It appears from official correspondence that the census of the Muslim population in
Cyprus was concluded by i86I, and that a census of the non-Muslim population was
ordered in I862, with the purpose of reforming the tax system. The census of the non-
Muslims in Cyprus was carried out by four teams, each consisting of one Muslim and one

The next Ottoman census, decreed by Mithat Pasa, and carried out between
i866 and 1873, provides an even better insight into the evolution of the Ottoman
censuses. It was taken only for the Danube province, which comprised most of
Bulgaria of today, and part Iraq, and was not published in its entirety, although
the Salnames (yearbooks issued by the government for the entire realm beginning
in 1846, and sporadically for various vilayets) published most of its contents.
The census was taken by using multiple registers which were eventually reduced
to a single one. Officials went from house to house to note the number of people
in a household, their age, marital status, occupation, and real estate properties.18
Special lists indicated the number of household heads together with their real
estate wealth and the rent derived from it, their occupation, and income. All
these findings were summarized in a fourth category of lists which indicated the
actual number of the taxable population and its ethnic composition, the number
of dwellings, the total income of the population, the total value of real estate, and
the tax collected.19 The information in this census material is so ample and
unique as to make it a permanent source of information for studying the social
and demographic history of the European possessions of the Ottoman state.
Professor N. Todorov, a member of the Bulgarian Academy, who was the first
to use, in detail, this census material in conducting his study of the Balkan towns
and their social structure, has acknowledged explicitly their value and reliability.20
One of the purposes of the census of I866 was to issue to all Ottoman subjects
a tezkere-i osmaniye, or Ottoman identity card, and then to use it to register
changes in the individual's status. Preparations were made to print and distribute
5 million cards in the Tuna (Danube) vilayet and, in anticipation of a country-
wide census, another i5 million for the rest of the realm.21
Concomitant with this interest in population matters, the government
appointed after i839: niifus nazrts (inspector-ministers of population) in the
eyalets (provinces), nufus memurs(population officials) in sanjaks and kazas, and
mukayyids (registrars) to record births and deaths and to periodically compile
Christian official plus a secretary. It was expected that the census of the non-Muslims
living in villages and towns would take 4-5 months. The Porte debated at length whether
the expenses of the census should be covered from the general treasury or from a levy
of a tax of one kuru$ on each Muslim and non-Muslim or deducted from the annual tax
collected from Cyprus (S to M, correspondence of 28 Sefer I279 [25 Aug. i862], BA,
Irade, Meclis-i Vala, 21366).
18 This material, under the serial number PC 79/8, is found in the oriental section of
the National Library of Bulgaria in Sofia. For further details see Nicola(i) Todorov, 'The
Balkan Town in the Second Half of the i9th Century', Etudes Balkaniques, 2 (I969), 31-
50.
19 Ibid., n. 3.
20 N.
Todorov, Balkanskiat Grad XV-XIX-vek (Balkan Towns in the XV-XIX
Centuries) (Sofia, 1972). An English translation of this book is to be published by
University of Washington Press, Seattle.
21 The tezkeres for the Tuna/Danube province were to be printed by Boyacloglu Agop
at a cost of I,250,ooo kurus. Actually, the printing of various forms associated with the
census and population registration provided good financial stimulus for the burgeoning
printing business in the Ottoman Empire. See S to M, communication of 9 Rebiulahir
1282 (i Sept. i865) BA, Irade, Meclis-i Vala, 24I67.

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cedvels (lists) indicating the total number of people in each district. These
officials were attached to the Ceride-i Niifus Nezareti (Ministry of Population
Registers) in the capital.22 Owing to a variety of internal causes, this ministry
was abolished soon afterward and the provincial population offices were placed
under the Tahiri Emlak Idaresi (Office of Property Surveys) and then, for a
short period, under the Military Affairs Office. During this period, the main-
tenance of the registers deteriorated until a new interest in population censuses
began to emerge in the late i86os.23 After the Suray-i Devlet (Council of State)
was established in I867, it assumed jurisdiction on all population matters. In
1874, the Council introduced a series of measures for taking a census and estab-
lishing a registration system. In 1881/82 it secured the establishment of a General
Population Administration (Niifus-u Umumi Idaresi) attached to the Ministry
of Interior, where it remained until the end of the empire. Later in the I88os, a
statistical office attached to the Ministry of Trade and Construction (later
reorganized into the Ministry of Trade and Agriculture) was established; it
issued population statistics on the basis of information supplied by the Popula-
tion Administration.
IV. THE FIRST ATTEMPTS AT ESTABLISHING A MODERN POPULATION

REGISTRATION SYSTEM, 1874
It is important to stress that after I870, census taking and the establishment of
an accurate, permanent registration system became a matter of priority both
for the sultan and for the Office of the Prime Minister, as attested by their
frequent orders to the concerned offices. It should be repeated that the niifis
defters, or permanent population registers, were established first in the I830s to
follow up the tahrir (census) and were charged with the registration of births,
deaths, and migrations. These registers, however, became useless for want of
proper care and maintenance and especially because of the influx of millions of
migrants into the empire. Between 1862 and 1870, close to two million Muslims
fled from the Caucasus into the Ottoman Empire, forced out of their ancestral
homes by Russian pressures for conversion to Christianity, service in the army,
and settlement in the unhealthy plains of the north Caucasus. Moreover, the
urbanization that followed the increase of trade and economic relations with
Europe after 1856 produced a shift of population from the rural interior toward
the coastal towns. Finally, the establishment of new provinces, through the
vilayet law of 1864 and its amendment in 187 , led to the abolition of the positions
22 The name ceride
given originally to some of the land and population registers came
later to mean 'newspaper'. The name ceride-i niifiis (population register) was changed
later to niifus sicilli and niifus kiitiigii in order to show its role as the source of all popula-
tion information.
23 Some information on the history of population administration is found in the reports
of the $uray-I Devlet, number 438 of 2I Cemaziyulevvel I298 (2z April I88I) BA, Irade,
*uray-i Devlet, 3148; S to M, communication of 7 Sefer I268 (z Dec. I851), BA, Irade,
Dahiliye, 14855.

assigned to population officials and to the allocation of the funds for their salaries
to other purposes. All these events produced further disorder in the deteriorating
situation of the population registers and undermined the collection of taxes and
conscription of Muslims into the army. Consequently, the $uray-i Devlet
appointed a special committee to study the possibility of taking a new census and
of establishing a new register system. In effect, this committee reported that the
synchronization, updating, and correction of the existing population defters
would take a very long time; that the influx of the ecnebi (bona fide foreigners)
and the rapid increase in the number of the mahmi (Ottoman-born non-Muslims
obtaining passports from European powers to become native proteges serving
foreign interests) aggravated further the registration process. Consequently, the
committee recommended and the Council of State agreed that the best solution
was to conduct a new census and to establish new defters to cover the entire
country, except for Hejez and Yemen.24 In I874, $uray-1 Devlet issued an
order and three regulations to carry out a new census and to establish a new
registration system. The first regulation concerned the census methods, the
second dealt with the establishment of a registration system based on three types
of defters or registers, and the third dealt with the appointment of population
officials. These will be studied briefly in that order.
The census was to be taken by a committee established in each kaymakamilk
(kaza or district). It consisted of one government official, a Muslim, one non-
Muslim chosen from among community leaders, a secretary, and his assistant.25
It was instructed to use the old population registers when possible but to conduct
the census mainly by going to each village and mahalle, or town district, in its
respective area. All male inhabitants, including children living in the locality,
had to appear before this committee and the village ihtiyar meclisi (council of
elders) and register their age, kiinye (nickname), color of eyes and skin com-
plexion, and special physical disabilities 'which will not fade with age'. The
census committee were instructed to see even newborn babies 'with their own
eyes', study each claim to exemption from military service, and see to it that
nobody remained 'hidden' and unregistered.26 Each family had to be registered
as a unit. The roster of the resulting village census was approved by the elders'
council and a copy of it was given to the population office at the kaza center. The
kaza official in turn would send a cumulative list of the number of males in his
district to the superior administrative unit, which would convey the lists to the
ultimate authority at the center, the Defteri Hakani (Ministry of Property
Records). Officials in each kaza were obliged to send copies of the registers of
Muslim males to the regional army offices and to be the repository of all village
24
Report of the Suray-l Devlet, number 695 of 29 Zilhice 1290 (17 Feb. 1874), BA,
Irade, Meclis-i Mahsus, 2086. All these reports concerning the census of 1874 are found
in one folio.
25 See
report of the *uray-i Devlet, Tahriri Niifusun Suret-i Icraiyesini Mutzammin
Talimattir (Instructions Concerning the Conduct of Population Census), S to M of I
Rebiyulevvel 1291 (18 April 1874), BA, Irade, Meclis-i Mahsus, 2089.
26
Ibid., art. 2.

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population registers. The census committee was empowered to use force

to bring before the registration officials those who refused to appear,
although it was instructed to act with tolerance and respect toward villagers, and
to refuse anything offered by individuals.27 The census instructions contained a
series of provisions concerning the registration of those absent from the locality,
of the foreigners, and of 'protected' people, the latter two being registered in
special registers.
In 1874, the *uray-1 Devlet envisaged the establishment of census systems
based on three types of registers.28 The esas defter, or the basic register, was to
include all males living in a village and in a mahalle or town quarter (the vilayet
law of 1871 defined a mahalle as a cluster of at least fifty houses), by numbering
consecutively in the first column the number of the individuals and in the second,
the families and their respective members. The register to be kept by the official
in the kaza center included columns for registering the individual's age and
changes in his military and personal status. The second register, icmal (summary),
contained the total number of people found in the villages and towns within a
kaza, and it was compiled on the basis of information derived from the village
and mahalle registers. One column in the summary registers divided the subjects
according to their millet (religious and ethnic affiliation) into Muslims, Greeks,
Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, and others. A third register, yevmiye vukuat (daily
events), kept in the kaza, registered new births, deaths, and changes in the in-
dividual's military status as reported by mukayyid (registrars), the muhtar (village
head), and the elders' council. Every six months, the total number of births and
deaths was added or subtracted from the icmal register. Models for each one
of the defters were drafted by the *uray-1 Devlet.
The administrative structure of the census and register system planned in
1874 consisted of a niifus naziri (population minister-inspector) at the provincial
level, a mukayyid (registering official) at the kaza level, and two secretaries for
each official.29These officials registered all births, deaths, migrations, and changes
in the status of males in their district based on the information supplied by the
imam (religious head), muhtar, and the village elders' council who filled this
information in a special ilmuhaber (information certificate) supplied by the
government. The population officials were obliged to take trips into the country-
27 Ibid., art. 8-io. Boys under the

age of three, the sick, and others who had valid
excuses could be registered by proxy.
28 See report of the Suray-i Devlet; Tahrir-i Niifus Ifin Ittihaz Olunacak Uc Turlii
Defterin Suret-i Istimalini Miibeyyin Tarifnamedir (Information [Description] Concern-
ing the Use of the Three Registers To Be Created for Conducting the Population Census),
S to M of i Rebiyulevvel 1291 (I8 Aug. I874), BA, Irade, Meclis-i Mahsus, 2089.
29 See report of the $uray-i Devlet, MemalikiMahsusa-i 'ahanedeTahrir-iNiifus Icra
Kilinan MahallerdeIstihdamOlunacakNiifus Nazirlari ve Kdtipleriile Mukayyiterlinin
Suret-i Tertipve Tayinleriile VazifeleriHakkzndaTalimattir(InstructionsConcerning
the Organizations, Appointment, and Responsibilities of the Population Inspectors,
Secretaries, and Registers To Be Appointed in the Localities of the Realm Where Census
Has Been Conducted), S to M of i Rebuyulevvel I29I (I8 April I874) BA, Irade,
Meclis-i Mahsus, 2089.

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side to study the situation on the spot and to report all changes to their superiors
and, eventually, to the Defter-i Hakani Nezareti (the new name acquired by the
old Defterhane in 1871) in the capital. A copy of the registers kept in areas
inhabited by Muslims was to be sent to the proper military authorities. Those
failing to report births, deaths, and changes in personal status were subjected to
various penalties.
All these instructions were submitted by Premier Hiiseyin Avni Pasa to the
sultan who approved them and issued a special order for their execution.30
Preparations were made, but the census and registration system devised in 1874
could not be carried out. There were several reasons. Revolts in Bosnia-
Herzegovina in I875, the abdication and suicide of Sultan Abdulaziz, the pro-
clamation of a constitution, and accession to the throne of Sultan Abdulhamit II
in 1876, and, especially, the disastrous war with Russia in I877/78 and the
resulting loss of territory substantially upset Ottoman internal order. In addition,
the influx of large numbers of Muslim refugees from the Balkans in 1877/78 and
thereafter, and the need to settle them, created new demographic problems not
foreseen in I874. Delay therefore resulted until they could be worked out.
V. THE CENSUS AND REGISTRATION SYSTEM OF I881/82
As soon as the political situation stabilized, the sultan issued an order for
carrying out a new census. The sultan complained through his secretary that the
country did not possess registers indicating the exact number of male subjects
and therefore could not estimate the exact number of soldiers available for active
and reserve duties, nor could it carry out a planned reorganization of the army.
Consequently, in I881, the Palace charged the War Ministry with the duty of
counting Muslim males, whereas officials in the Ministry of Interior counted
the non-Muslims.31 As usual, the issue was referred to the $uray-1 Devlet. This
modern-minded office, eager to adopt advanced techniques of organization,
debated the issue and came out with a series of recommendations which were
based in large measure on the 874 regulations.
These recommendations and the resulting regulations became, in effect, the
basis for the census and registration system used after 188i.32 They were broader
in scope and different in essence from the sultan's directives. The *uray-i
Devlet acknowledged that the census of 1874 could not be carried out because of
internal reasons, although the knowledge gained in devising it was very useful in
planning the new one. It agreed with the military authorities that the division of
the Muslim population into age groups was a matter of vital practical importance.
It stressed also the necessity of providing each Ottoman citizen with a tezkere,
30 See correspondence S to M of 8, 9 Rebiyulahir 1291 (May 25, 26, I874), BA, Irade,
Meclis-i Mahsus, 2089.
31M to S, order of 15 Recep 1297 (June 23, i880), BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 65276.
32 S to M,
$uray-I Devlet, Tanzimat Dairesi, Communication Number 438 of 21
Cemaziyulevvel I298 (21 April i88i), BA, Irade, $uray-l Devlet, 3148.

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identity card, to be used in the increasingly frequent contacts taking place

between the government and individuals.
The council emphasized the fact that population statistics were useful for
administrative as well as for military purposes. This was particularly true in the
case of the non-Muslims, who paid the bedelat-i askeriye (tax instead of military
service). The tax had been levied in the past on entire communities without
ascertaining the exact number of its members. Since the number of non-Mus-
lims was higher than that indicated in the tax rolls, there was a significant loss of
revenue. All this necessitated a new census. The Council, however, pointed out
that a 'census showed the size of the population at a given moment. The
population changes being continuous and .. natural, it was necessary to
devise a sound basis, a new system which would record all [population] changes
and thus derive the utmost benefit from a census.'33 In other words, the *uray-i
Devlet regarded the census not as a goal in itself as in previous times but as a
means for compiling population statistics and establishing a register of popula-
tion. It emphasized the importance of statistics. Indeed, beginning roughly in
1878 the Ottoman government showed increasing interest in modern statistics,
beginning to publish some and eventually establishing a statistical office.34 It
worked in collaboration with the General Administration of Population and
came to be headed largely by professionals, many of whom were non-Muslims or
foreigners.35
The Council affirmed boldly that in order to conduct a proper census and
compile accurate population statistics it was necessary to look at the practices of
other countries in Europe and America and to take them as models. It proposed
to unify and consolidate all the elements involved in population matters,
including census taking, population registration, and administrative organiza-
tion. Different from the past centuries when tahrir or yoklama (census taking)
was regarded as the chief goal of the endeavour, the *uray-i Devlet defined
the census only as a provisional measure necessary to establish the statistical
foundation for a permanent register system which would record continuously
33 Ibid.
34 The Ottoman government began to compile regular statistics concerning foreign
trade beginning in I294 (I878). The statistics for I878-I900 are available in their
entirety. The statistics for 1900-13 are sporadic. See Osmanh Imparatorlugunun Ticaret
Muvazenese, I878-1913, No. I23-73, General Directorate of Statistics (Ankara, 1939).
3 5 I tried to find the names of the individuals who directed the statistical office of the
Ottoman Empire. Continuity of directors and their ranks could indicate the degree of
professionalism and the importance attached to, and hence, the quality of the statistics.
A search through the Salnames of I310 (1892) to I334 (1916) with the exception of I9II-
I914, when no Salnames were issued, showed that the office of statistics was headed by
high-ranking non-Muslim officials and foreigners for about thirteen years out of a total of
nineteen for which precise information is available, as shown in the table opposite. It is
also interesting to note the effort of the Ottoman officials to disseminate information on
statistics. A statistical publication prepared by Mehmet Behi9, showing the demographic
economic, financial, and other characteristics of the Ottoman state in 1310 (I894) begins
with a general introduction discussing the meaning and importance of statistics. See
Sicill-i Nilfus Idare-i Umumiyesi, Yevmiye Kdtibi Mehmet Behif Tarafindan Tenzim
Olunan Istatistik Defteri, Istanbul Universitesi Kitapliki, Tiirkqe Yazmalar, 9075.

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all births and deaths and provide general statistical information on the entire
population. Consequently, all the previous provisions concerning the census and
and registration system were combined into one single regulation, Sicilli Niifus
Nizamnamesi (Regulation for Population Registers).36 These Regulations were
debated and approved by the General Committee of the *uray-1 Devlet, and
promulgated by the sultan in i88i.37
Officers of the Ottoman Empire's Directorate of Statistics
Years
Rumi
or General Director Assistant to the
Hijri Mali A.D. of Statistics General Director
1310 1308 1892 Nuri Bey

1311 1309 1893 Fethi Bey"
1312 I3I0 1894
1313 1311 1895 Fethi Franko Bey
1314 1312 1896 ,, , ,
1315 1313 1897 Migirdi9 Sinabyan Efendib
1316 1314 1898 , , ,, Mehmet Behic Bey
1317 1315 1899 . , ., ,
1318 1316 1900o , ,,, ,
1319 1317 190i1 ,, ,, .. .
1320 1318 1902 , ,, , , ,
1321 1319 1903 Rober Efendic ,, .. .
1322 1320 19044 ,, ,, ,, ,
1323 1321 1905 ,, ,, ,

1324 1322 1906 ,, , ,, ,
1325 1323 I907 ., ,, ,
1326 1324 1908 Mehmet Behi9 Beyd
1327 1325 09
I909
1328 1326 I9IO0 ,, ,,,
1329 1327 191I ,, , ,
1330 1328 1912 , ,,,
1331 1329 1913 ..
1332 I330 1914 , .., .
1333 I33I 1915
1334 1332 1916
a Fethi Bey apparently was Jewish.
b
Migirdic Efendi, an Armenian, was Assistant Director of Trade in 1892-96,
and after 1902 became Assistant Minister of Trade.
c Rober
(Robert) Efendi was apparently an American employed as Director Gen-
eral of Statistics because of his expertise.
d Mehmet
Behic produced several works on statistics. He evidenced talent, and
while Assistant to the General Director Director of Statistics became an equally
good statistician.
e In
1910 the Trade Ministry was detached from the Construction Ministry and
combined with the Agriculture Ministry, and the Statistical General Directorate
was placed under its jurisdiction.
36 See Sicill-i
Niifus Nizamnamesi of 8 $aban 1298 (5 July 1881), BA, Irade, $uray-I
Devlet, 3148. All reports and correspondence concerning the census of I881/82 are in one
folio.
37 See
$uray-I Devlet, Umumi Heyeti Mazbatasi, of 8 $aban 1298 (5 July I881), BA,
Irade, $uray-i Devlet, 3148. Of the twenty people who participated in the debate only
two voted against the proposal. All the three non-Muslims, Yanko, Constantin, and
Nuryan, voted for it.

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The Regulations consisted of fifty articles, divided into nine sections. The first
thirty-eight articles, comprising eight sections, were devoted to the organization
of the register system while the last twelve, assembled under the heading
ahkam-zmuvvakate (provisional regulation), dealt with the census itself. Follow-
ing its own reasoning, the Council considered the census as an ad hoc project
while its by-product, the register system, was a permanent one. We shall study
the census first.
The census consisted essentially of registration in the sicil, or register. It was
carried out by committees established in each kaza. Each committee had one
member from the kaza administration council, another from the municipal
council, the population official, and a redif (reserve military officer). In the
kazas that had different religious groups, one additional member was selected
from the most numerous non-Muslim group. A population secretory and his
assistant accompanied the committee (art. 39-40). The registration included
the respondent's name and nickname, his or her father's name, and the address,
age, religion, occupation and profession, electoral status, physical disabilities, and
civil status. The non-Muslims supplied the same information, but were registered
in a different register so as to facilitate the tax levy. The information was supplied
directly by the person involved, but exceptions were recognized in legitimate
cases when a third person accompanied by two witnesses over the age of twenty-
one provided it for an absent party. (This provision apparently was intended to
excuse women from appearing before the census committee since for the first
time women were also counted and registered.) At the end of the census of a
village or mahalle (town district), the accuracy, completeness, and authenticity
of the census results were certified by the imam, muhtar, and the community
councils.38 The kaza population official was obliged to compile, within three
months after the end of the census, a list of all inhabitants in his district and send
it to the province capital, which sent it ultimately to the Niifus-u Umumiye
Idaresi (General Administration of Population).
Compliance with the census registration was insured by a rather compelling
measure. Each registered individual was issued an official niifus tezkeresi
(population bulletin or identity card) which contained all the relevant informa-
tion about the bearer in the register. This card came to be known later as niifus
ciizdanz (population book). Each individual had to show it to the authorities
before buying, selling, or inheriting property, before being accepted in an
occupation or profession, for obtaining travel documents, or for conducting other
official business. Those without such cards, besides unable to conduct official
business, were punished by stiff fines and jail terms ranging from twenty-four
38 During the debates in the $uray-i Devlet, the General Committee suggested that
since some non-Muslim community leaders could not speak Turkish and consequently
faced difficulty in filing the birth certificates, the population officers sent to these areas
should be selected from those who spoke the native languages. In other words, instead
of compelling the citizens to learn Turkish, the language of the administration, the
Ottoman government sought at this date to teach its own officials the regional languages,
a custom long in practice.

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hours to one month if they failed to present an acceptable excuse before the court
(art. 5). Those failing to register in order to avoid military service were to be
immediately conscripted.
The Population Administration consisted of a central administration with a
Director General and a Secretariat attached to the Dahiliye (Interior) Ministry.
Each kaza had a population official, while the special districts had a niifus nazirz,
both of whom were assisted by a population secretary and his assistant. Births,
deaths, migration, and marriages occurring in the villages and mahalles after the
census were recorded by the local officials (the muhtars) in one of four types of
standard ilmuhaber(information certificate) in accordance with the instructions
issued by the population official in the kaza (art. I, 12). The latter in turn was
obliged to forward the annual icmal (summary) of the village and mahalle
population reports, after due inspection and approval by the kaza administrative
council, to the superior offices not later than April i. Eventually, the reports
from all the vilayets reached the General Administration of Population in the
Ministry of Interior: 'The copies of the registrations [births, deaths] reaching
the Ministry of Interior would provide the General Administration of Population
with [statistical data] necessary to compile the annual general statistics [of the
population] and would be preserved intact. A list of people reaching military
age together with the [description] of their identity will be compiled and
forwarded to the Military Administration' (art. 14).
The Regulations issued by the $uray-i Devlet contained other detailed
instructions concerning the registration of births (art. 15-22), marriages (art.
23-26), deaths (art. 27-29), and migration (art. 30-3I). They also contained a
special section (art. 32-39) establishing procedures for the control and super-
vision of population registers, assuring a constant upward flow of information
from villages to the superior population authorities, for registering those who
might have failed to do so during the original census, and for correcting the
registers' shortcomings, if any. The Regulations dealt with the financing of the
register system by charging small sums for registering births and issuing travel
certificates. All these proposals were accepted by the sultan who ordered their
implementation as soon as possible.39 It is important to stress the fact that the
registration system, the niifus tezkeresi (identity card), and the administrative
organization established in 1881/82 were implemented, with certain expansions
and modifications, throughout the remainder of the Ottoman Empire and have
survived in a variety of forms in Turkey and other places in the Middle East
right to the present day. A law issued in 13I8 (I900/I) broadened considerably
the registration provisions of the Regulations of 1881/82. Another law and the
accompanying regulations issued in 1320 (I902/3) superseded the law of 1318 and
brought further clarification concerning census taking and registration. Another
census based on this law was apparently started in 1321 (1903/4).
39 See exchangeof lettersbetweenthe Prime Minister'sofficeand the Palace,and the
latter's Irade (Orders) of 7 $evval I298 (i Sept. i88x) and 8 $evval 1898 (2 Sept. i88 ),
BA, Irade, $uray-I Devlet, 3148.

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VI. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POPULATION CENSUS AND REGISTRA-

TION IN 1881/82
The time needed for preparations did not permit the census and registration
committees established at kaza level to begin their work until sometime in
1882. The census itself, that is, the registration of all the inhabitants in villages
and mahalles, and the issuance of the niifus tezkeresi, took far longer than expected
because of the physical difficulties involved, such as lack of transportation and
bad weather. The first results from the more accessible areas came in I884/85.
Some of these preliminary statistical results were published in a variety of
places, including the Salnames, but have been used by just a few writers, and
only recently.40 Many other vilayets do not appear to have completed their
TABLE I Population of Istanbul in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Year Muslims Non-Muslims Total
H I260 (1844) 102,532 III,I60 213,692 (males only)

H 1273 (1857) II2,I62 124,162 236,092 (males only)
H 1298 (I882)a II8,535 IOI,4I0 381,376 (2I9,945 males; I61,431 females)
H 1302 (1885) 384,4Io 488,655 873,565b
H I3I4 (I896) 520,194 510,040 1,030,234
R I330 (I914) 520,434 389,553 909,987
a census.
Incomplete
b The figures indicating the population of Istanbul in I893 are identical with the figures
given earlier by the Ministry of Interior in I885. The minister informed the premier's
office that the population of Istanbul consisted of 384,910 Muslims, 359,412 non-Muslims,
and I29,243 foreigners, or a total of 873,565 people. The Ministry reported that soldiers
and a number of unregistered people were not included in the statistics. It seems that
the compiler of the general statistics for 1893 used the old figure obtained in I885, but
updated the figures three years later. See prime minister's letter to the Palace, 28 Ramazan
1302 (II July I885), and the interior minister's communication number 393 of 26
Ramazan I302 (9 July I885), BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 73538. It is interesting to note also
that the census statistics for Istanbul in 1844 and 1857 indicated that a total of 75,748 and
94,119 people, respectively, residing in Istanbul were bekdr (single outsiders) or males
who had come from the countryside to the city for commercial purposes. Approximately
43,000 outsiders in 1844, and 55,000 outsiders in 1857, were non-Muslims, indicating
that the non-Muslim population was moving into urban areas to become involved in the
expanding commercial activities. This trend was reversed toward the end of the century
owing to an influx of Muslims from abroad and to the rise of a Muslim middle class.
The latter tried to engage in the commercial activities monopolized by non-Muslims, and
in the process the brewing nationality conflict acquired a new economic and political
dimension. The Istanbul census for 1896 indicated the presence of 30,680 migrants
(muhacir) in the city, of whom only 144 were Jews and all the rest Muslims. The head of
the population census committee, Esseyit Mustafa Tevfik, reported that the increase of the
Muslim population was due to migration, while the non-Muslims flocked into the city
for commercial purposes. The census indicated also the presence of 5,560 students in the
medrese.
40 For a
general reference, see Vedat Eldem, Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun Iktisadi
Sartlarz Hakkunad Bir Tetkik (n.p., 1970), pp. 49-65. Eldem used some of the figures
published in the official publication cited in n. 48. He does mention the fact that the

census or to have established their register systems until 1886/87. For instance,
even the city of Istanbul, which conducted five censuses in the century and was
given priority, barely completed its census by I885.41 Thus, the population of
Istanbul in the nineteenth century (the city included the dersaadet[old city], the
bilad-i selase [the "three boroughs," originally Eyup, Galata, and Uskudar], and
Beyoglu, which was added in 1894/95), is shown in Table i.
One of the chief difficulties faced by the census committees in I88I/82, and
especially by the population officials, was the double task of conducting the
census in villages and of keeping up to date the registers of districts whose
censuses were already completed. This difficulty was compounded by the fact
that the population officials had to report every year the total number of people
in their respective districts. Consequently, the census progressed rather slowly. In
order to expedite the work, new census teams, called kol, were later formed in the
vilayets.42 As the work in some vilayets appeared to near completion, the
government decided late in I885 to send specially qualified teams of inspectors to
control the census results, to compile general population statistics, and to take
whatever measures seemed necessary to insure a continuous and accurate registra-
tion of all population changes.43 The vilayets chosen for inspection were Hiida-
vendigar (Bursa), Edirne, Trabzon, Cezayiribahrisefit (Aegean Islands), Adana,
Sivas, and Karesi (Balikesir). Some time afterward, Trabzon informed
the government that it had completed its census and, therefore, it was placed in
the category of the first-class vilayets.44The Palace showed constant interest in the
matter and issued deadlines for its completion and the drafting of empire-wide
population statistics.45 It is safe to assume that the censuses of most of the Otto-
Ottoman government took a census in 1882-84 but does not elaborate further. Vital
Cuinet also seems to have relied on the same source. See Syrie, Liban et Palestine:
geographie administrative, statistique, descriptive et raisonnee (Paris, i896). For some
information on the population of Palestine, see also Moshe Ma'oz, ed., Studies on
Palestine during the Ottoman Period (Jerusalem, 1975).
41 A report by the head of the census committee (niifus tahrir komisyonu) giving some
estimates for 1882, indicated that this was the fifth census of the city but could not find
the lists for the first two censuses. It appears from the existing information that the
government empowered the Ihtisab, later Zaptiye (Interior) ministry, in I265 (I848) to
maintain population lists to be completed every year according to the deaths and births
occurring in the country. The measure was abandoned and then revived after the Crimean
war when population was given the first niifiis tezkeresi (identity card). See reports in
Istanbul Universitesi Kitapligl, Tiirkce Yazmalar, Number 8949. Other sources are in
BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 24, 402. My detailed study of Istanbul's transformation in the
nineteenth century, presented originally at a conference organized by AISEE and
UNESCO in I973, will appear elsewhere.
42 The orders for
establishing new census teams were issues on 3 Nov. 1884, approxi-
mately three years after the census began.
43 Letter from Premier's office, 20 Zilkade
1302 (31 Aug. i885), BA, Irade, Dahiliye
76006.
44 Palace
(Yildiz) letter of 9 Rebiyulahir I304 (5 Jan. I886) BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 80019.
45 For instance, in
I886, the vilayet of Halep (Aleppo) demanded at least nine more
months to finish its census. Indications are that it completed its census much later than
that. See correspondence S to M of I9 Cemaziulevvel 1303 and 25 Cemaziulahir I303
(23 Feb. i886, and 31 March i886), BA, Irade, Dahiliye, 77419.

256 Kemal Karpat
man territories in the Balkans, Anatolia, and Syria (inclusive of Jordan, most of
Lebanon, and Palestine) were almost completed by 1888/89. There still remained
a few people not registered even in the areas where the census was declared to be
completed. In a few inaccessible areas, populations, particularly the nomadic
tribes, were not counted at all, but were estimated on the basis of information
supplied by tribal leaders and local officials.
The Ottoman census and registration that began in 1881/82 represented a
continuous endeavour. Consequently, it is extremely difficult at this stage of our
ongoing research to state precisely when they ended, if they ended at all. One
can, however, state that the population records issued in I893 represent the
most complete and reliable Ottoman population figures compiled in the nine-
teenth century.
On 5 Sefer 1311 (I7 August 1893) Premier Cevat Pasa submitted them in a
bound manuscript to the sultan who had consistently pressed for their com-
pletion and accuracy.46 Different from a variety of earlier general population
statistics, these gave precise and detailed information on the population of all
areas and noted the districts and regions where the census was not completed,
while providing estimates for the people in these areas-mostly women and
tribesmen-not subjected to individual census and registration.47The figures in
these statistics were considered definitive and reliable and, therefore, were used
as a basis for official statistics concerning the Ottoman population and for
subsequent administrative measures.
The final question to be asked concerns the margin of error, which means
unregistered people (mostly women), in the statistical tables presented below. It
is impossible to provide a definitive answer to this question. My own view on this
matter, stemming in part from the insight one gains by working with such
materials, is that the margin of error in established communities located in the
relatively developed areas with reasonably good communication was low, possibly
between 2 and 5 percent. The practical need for every individual to possess a
niifus tezkeresi used in all dealings with the government forced practically
everyone to register. The margin of error in remote areas probably increased to
6-io percent.48 Even here, the need for personnel in the army, and taxes, forced
46 The letter states that the defter (register) submitted to the sultan was prepared by the
Population Administration following the sultan's orders and that it included the number
of the Muslim and non-Muslim population (cemaat-i muhtelife), and of the foreigners.
Bab-i Ali, Daireyi Sadaret, Amedi Divan-i Humayun, 333, BA, Ylldiz, Perakende, iiS
31 , Number 2 5.
47 See Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniyenin I313 Senesine Mahsus Istatistik-i Umumiyesi
(General Statistics of the Ottoman State for the Year 1313 [1895]), Ministry of Trade and
Construction, Istanbul I3I6 (I898). This latter publication was compiled by the Statisti-
cal office on the basis of information supplied by the Population Administration.
48 The validity of the census results obtained in I893 can be tested against some other
reliable estimates. Fortunately, we have a number of estimates on the population of
various important vilayets in Anatolia and Rumili. For instance, the British Consulate
put together eight different population estimates for the population of Sivas. One of the
estimates was issued by the Armenian Patriarch whose figures were grossly wrong both
for Muslims and non-Muslims. The remaining seven estimates made by the Armenian

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the government to be as thorough as possible. It is my considered opinion that

these statistics represent a reliable source for the study of Ottoman population
at the end of the nineteenth century.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
bishop in Sivas, by foreigners and Ottoman officials acquainted with the local situation,
show the population of Sivas in I88i as varying between 708,550 and 895,682 people;
the Muslim-Christian ratio as varying between 3.4-5.01, exclusive of 50,000 Circas-
sians. The differences between these informed estimates does not differ greatly from
Statistics of Population of Sivas Vilayet compiled by the British
Christian-
Muslim
Source of statistics Christians ratio Muslims Total
Supplied by the Armenian Patriarch to Her

Majesty's Ambassador 62,000 Ix-.3 80,ooo 142,000
Supplied by the Armenian Bishop of Sivas to
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, Jan. 188o 201,245 1-3.4 694,437 895,682
Supplied by the Armenian Bishop of Sivas to
Lieutenant Chermside, Aug. I880 201,245 1-3.4 694,431 895,676
Supplied by Abedine Pasha to Lieutenant-
Colonel Wilson, Jan I880; statistics obtained
by doubling the males I43,174 1-4.0 584,604 727,778
Supplied by unknown to Lieutenant-Colonel
Wilson, Jan. 1880; statistics obtained by
doubling the males 136,432 I-4.2 578,166 714,598
Supplied by Government to Lieutenant
Chermside, Aug. I880; statistics obtained by
doubling the males 143,176 1-5.1 729,872 873,048
Sivas Almanac for 1878; statistics obtained by
doubling the males I8I,586 1-3.9 711,264 892,850
According to Baker Pasha; statistics obtained by
doubling the males 140,732 I-4.0 567,818 708,550
SOURCE:Great Britain, House of Commons, Accounts and Papers, vol. 0oo (I88I), No. 6, p. 99.
Patriarch Hassoun's inflated estimates of the number of Armenian Catholics appears in the
same source.
the figures obtained in 1893. The latter including new births since I880 placed the total
population of Sivas at 926,671 people of whom 766,558 were Muslims and 16o,II3
Christians. It is noteworthy that the Armenian Catholic Patriarch Hassoun IX in a letter
to the British showed the Armenian Catholics of Sivas as numbering io,ooo. The
Ottoman census of 1893 showed the number of Catholic Armenians in Sivas province as
3,052 people, almost evenly divided between men and women. Other vilayets show more
or less the same pattern.

OttomanGeneralCensusof 1893 by Vildyet(Province),Sanjak (District),and K
(F, female; M, male; *cenu completed)
Muslims Greeks Armenians Bulgarians Catholics Jews Protestants Latins Monoph
Administrative unit F M F M F M F M F M F
,______F
M
M
F
-
-_~...........____
-_~ -MM-
M
F~~~~
_~ F -
M F
*AYDIN PROVINCE
lImir Sanjak
Izmir Central Kaza 34566 44722 24028 29058 3151 3659 20 372 365 7175 7734 63 65 464 586
Bergama 25574 28230 4676 5574 399 410 n16 142 252 243
Seferhisar 2779 2842 632 66o 2 6
Fopateyn ,, (Foaa) 1703 2059 5023 5573 13 34 1 45 53 44
Urla 3973 4143 5919 6135 7 9 142 140
Menemen 6869 7661 2209 2213 49 57 128 101
Ceme ,, 1770 1907 t2981 13845 54 69
Kusada ,, 4296 4526 3179 2942 45 42 17
Tire 15183 15118 1075 11go 5 7 19 31 514 515
Odemi 26833 26984 1773 1937 512 581
Bayindir 8840 9052 1439 169o 87 90 z 18 13 14 1I
Total Izmir Sanjak 132386 147244 62934 70877 4270 4895 136 256 372 365 8336 8859 77 76 464 586
Saruhan Sanjak
Manisa Kaza 33557 34629 7130 8268 1102 1125 652 693
Kasaba ,, (Turgutlu) 103Z0 11074 1343 1511 230 250 340 391
Salihli 11313 12396 28o 385
Gtirdes 15426 15394 310 314
Demirci 16415 17266 17 72 1 5
Kula ,, 12612 13355 1556 1588
E4me 8586 9341
Akhisar 11607 12403 2389 2287 i68 181 85 95
Kirkaag ,, 8396 8336 1306 1296 390 380 34 40
Alaehir ,, 12414 13324 1265 1275 7 11 12 15
Soma 8872 8814 613 6o6
Total Saruhan Sanjak 149518 156332 16209 17602 1898 1952 1123 1234
Aydin Sanjak
Aydin Central Kaza 30399 31815 2585 3058 124 132 8o 58 941 954
Nazilli ,, 30141 29815 959 1069 149 152 1oo 95
Bozdon ,, 13808 13887 16 50 5 3 6 S
Soke ,, 6919 7195 4019 4156 25 34
Cine 12809 12443 159 131
Total Aydin Sanjak 94076 95155 7738 8464 303 321 8o 58 1047 1054
Denizli Sanjak
Denizli Central Kanz 16902 16512 856 902 250 251
Tavas 26430 26466 I 28
Cal ,, 21335 20823 18 139
Buldan 1266o 12855 4
Ssray ,, 8680 9225 271 343
Garbikaraaiac
(Acipayam) 18459 19058
Total, see next Sanjak
Menteqe Sanjak
Muila Kaza 21135 21277 545 607 2 1
Mili. 13522 13466 833 1012 168 188
Bodrum , 5732 5819 1112 It33 45 37
Marmari ,, 6221 6114 304 330 18
Koyceiz ,, 10466 10585 135 113 2 32 15
Mejri ,, (Fethiye) 10174 10696 1938 2110 10 16
Total Denizli and Mentege
Sanjaks 171716 172896 6013 6721 250 251 2 34 225 275
TOTAL AYDIN PROVINCE 547696 571627 92894 103664 6721 7419 138 290 452 423 10731 11422 77 76 464 586
Muslims Greeks Armenians Bulgarians Catholics Jews Protestants Latins Monophy
Administrative unit F M F M F F F M M__F~
_______________~
M F
M M F M F M F M F
* EDIRNE PROVINCE
Edirne Sanjak
Edirne Central Sanjak 57162 60046 37449 40381 1917 1924 14708 16213 136 173 4370 4548 i8 24
Gelibolu Kaza 12239 13366 28250 30903 524 556 805 869 790 814
Dedeaa; , 13205 15327 12093 11734 33 254 5835 6614 35 35 11 24
Kirkkilise
(Korklareli) 17111 19216 26208 27455 45 63 16320 17679 44 40 425 475 27 30
Tekirdagt
(Tekfurdagl) 21397 23235 18361 20532 5403 5601 1765 2oo0 274 287 780 876 92 88
Gumulcine , 90364 91698 6492 7362 175 147 9828 9599 232 372
TOTAL EDIRNE
PROVINCE 211478 222888 128853 138367 8097 8545 49261 52984 489 533 66o8 7109 137 I42
ERZURUM PROVINCE'
Erzurum Sanjak
Erzurum Central Kaza 13473 13636 244 242 4577 5153 375 416 164 I65
Ova 21862 23847 3 8 8765 9613 200 203
Tercan 8o66 11179 51 72 2507 3755
Bayburt 20030 22797 280 375 4557 5098
Ispir 14563 15588 1 1100 1199 42 37
Keskin , 9579 12369 17 20 323 369 1641 I859
Tortum 21448 25224 546 621 171 183
Pasinler 15665 19691 9 12 2863 3915 116 179 95 136
Kii ,, 11322 16373 6o 75 4169 6312 322 412
Hinis 6858 8636 3657 4758 52 o
208
Total Erzurum Sanjak 142866 169340 664 805 33064 40793 2545 2877 3 3 733 921
Bayezit Sanjak
Bayezit Central Kaza 3797 5146 945 968
Diyadin 4870 5226 132 zIo
Tutak , (Antap) 3137 4496 o05 o08
Karakilise
(Karakose) 2294 3905 969 121I
Ele,kirt 6799 7729 165o 1957 565 743 21 30
Total Bayezit Sanjak 20897 26502 3801 4454 565 743 21 31
Erzincan Sanjak
Erzincan Central Kaza 19879 21644 91 I15 6125 656I 39 49
Refahiye ,, o0009 10631 557 544 376 393
Kemah 6468 7393 280 299 1483 167I 80 66
Kurusay , Ilig) 4874 5045 I23I 1I86
Total Erzincan Sanjak 41230 44713 929 958 9215 98it ii9 I45
TOTAL ERZURlUM
PROVINCE 204993 240555 1593 1763 46080 55058 311o 3620 3 873 I097
Muslims Greeks Armenians Bulgarians Catholics Jews Protestants Latins Monop
Administrative unit F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F
*ADANA PROVINCE
Adana Sanjak
Adana Central Kaza 26709 31340 712 893 4336 5276 306 342 304 332 39
Tarsus 19023 20839 281 365 470 704 139 I56 94 88
Mersin 9707 10030 505 697 121 309 131 t66
Karaisali 10090 11505 20 tg
Total Adana Sanjak 65529 73714 1498 1955 4947 6308 576 704 398 420
Kozan Sanjak
Sis Kaza (Kozan) 8679 9659 6645 7381 27 29 42 45
Kadirli 6665 7444 351 369
Sayimbeyli ,, (Haiin) 6141 6885 4907 5297 73 72 331 351
Feke 4497 5299 544 6oo 821I lo5 59 84
Total Kozan Sanjak 25982 29287 544 600 12724 14062 100 101 432 480
Itel Sanjak
Silifke Kaza 12058 1177o 378 523 45 68 5 13
Mut 5979 5993 7 24
Ermnek ,, 12309 11723 3 21 35
Gulnar 8128 8175 114 136 9 9
Anamur 10674 11883 145 a85
Total Irel Sanjak 49148 49544 644 871 75 112 5 17
Cebelibereket Sanjak
(Osmaniye)
Barpuz Kaza 1432 1588 147 210
fHassa 2923 4157 14 II 136 154 69 8s 58 72
Islahiye 3819 4536 118 175
Bulanik ,, (Bahe) 4251 4496 911 1122
Osmaniye , 3634 4129 39 6i
Payas 6266 6941 55 70 1655 1843
Total Cebelibereket Sanjak 22325 25847 69 81 3o06 3565 69 81 198 2i6
TOTAL ADANA
PROVINCE 162984 178392 2755 3507 20752 24047 750 903 1628 r116 39
ISKODRA PROVINCE
Ikodra Sanjakb
Ak,;ahisarKaza 6132 6264 923 873
Drag Sanjak
Dra; Central Kaza 1383 1634 712 802 114 87
'iiran 15749 15777 386 501 23 27
Kuvaya ,, 8372 8523 1295 1456
$iyak 7532 7234 375 386 379 371
Total Dra; Sanjak 33036 33168 2768 3145 516 485
TOTAL I KODRA
PROVINCE 39168 39432 2768 3145 1439 1358
Administrative unit F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F
_ __
*ANKARA PROVINCE
AnkaraSanjak
Ankara Central Kaza 8686 8532 843 794 376 349 2846 2733 225 I88 7 6
Zir
(Simdibuak) 7310 7014 II18 1096 109 127
AyaS 10852 10933 2 2 9 9 2
Beypazar ,, 8327 7924
Nallihan 7516 7354 403 424
MihaliCik
(EskiSehir; Kuyucak) 9340 9189
Sivrihisar 14048 12284 1848 1803
Haymana 11945 13383 11 12 2 3
Bal ,, 11316 11556
qubuk 9236 8518
Kalecik 17226 17550 227 252
Kizilcahamam
(Yabanabat) 22643 22302
Total Ankara Sanjak 138445 136539 854 8o8 3976 3936 2846 2742 225 190 II6 133
Kayseri Sanjak
Kayseri Central Kaza 42140 43023 9196 9210 12178 12772 380 335 664 651
Develi 10746 11032 886 935 5241 5605 120 118
Incesu 6575 6841 2356 2312 23
Total Kayseri Sanjak 59461 60896 12438 12457 17419 18400 380 335 784 769
Yozgat Sanjak
Yozgat Central Kaza 22239 22878 564 592 4134 4325 111 96
Corum ,, 23830 24551 45 101 200 297 i6 17
Sungurlu 30156 33789 333 357 1367 1476 66 63
Bogazllyan 16091 I7359 2i8 270 4076 4770 18 25
Maden
(Akdagnadeni) 13713 13971 2677 2391 767 925
Total Yozgat Sanjak 106029 112548 3837 3711 10544 11793
Kirsehir Sanjak
Kirsehir Central Kaza 25692 27907 15 23 318 390
Keskin 19465 20014 362 410 161 I6I 14 12
Cisekdao ,,
(Mecidiye) 5055 5745
Avanos 8357 9613 241 151
Total Kirsehir Sanjak 58569 63279 377 433 720 702 14 12
TOTAL ANKARA
PROVINCE 362504 373262 17506 17409 32659 34831 3226 3077 225 190 I125 1115
*IZMIT SPECIAL
DISTRICT
Izmit Central Kaza 9285 9963 1696 1880 7826 8oii 5 8 63 70 78 84 333 382
1210 5270 3 3 i52 i62
Adapazar ,, 18991 21327 1307 5432
Kandira ,, 21011 19675 990 I098 626 633
,, 10605 2291 2818 3055 36 43
Geyve 11528 2223
Karamirsel 4960 5772 5136 5887 1607 1942
TOTAL IZMIT SPECIAL
DISTRICT 12366 18309 18911 5 8 63 70 81 88 521 587
65775 67342 11352
BA6DAT PROVINCE'
(BAGHDAD)
Bakdat Central Kaza 756 103625 349 875 33 11943 17 49
Hille 26916 510
Kerbeli 18811 230 17 49
TOTAL BA6DAT
PROVINCE 756 149352 349 875 33 1268 17 49
BASRA PROVINCE'
Basra Central Kaza 5729 32 75 276
Ammare 3658 3 33 I45 126
,,
Kurna 767 9
TOTAL BASRA PROVINCE 10154 35 O18 421 135
BEYRUT PROVINCEd
Beyrut Sanjak
Beyrut Central Kaza 10969 11693 6473 6821 32 54 7037 7468 582 615 I53 189 145 97
Sayda
(Sidon) 16570 17215 66 82 2352 2714 277 297 64 82 21 I6
Sur 11o6i 10656 142 16 1938 2072 50 57 I
Mercirum 6607 6281 1826 1902 892 899 426 441
Total Beyrut Sanjak 45207 45845 8507 8965 32 54 12219 13153 859 912 693 769 166 114
Akka Sanjak (Acre)
Akka Central Kaza 9686 10328 1369 1545 1510 1703 62 6i 60 70 104 112
Hayfa 6592 7343 220 232 616 749 212 291 5 10 59 65
Safat 6306 6576 97 121 481 633 94 99
Nasira ,, 3463 3385 1406 1453 442 497 139 149 663 695
Tabarya 2505 2656 22 32 8o 78 408 391 3 4
Total Akka Sanjak 28552 30288 3114 3383 3129 3660 776 842 204 229 829 876
Lazikiye Sanjak
Lazikiye Central Kaza 17634 19754 870 982 266 270
Cebele 10351 8297
Merkap 14851 13761 1179 1215 463 572
Sakyun 12006 13864 487 645 23 8442
Total Lazikiye Sanjak 54842 55676 2536 2842 731 844
Trablussam Sanjak
Trablus Central Kaza 15749 16781 3520 4237 1467 2058 31 32 15 23 5 8
Akar 6198 6340 3309 4610 2031 2854 3
Safita 13593 13783 884 1I79 78 124
Hisnilekrat 7686 7978 3356 3517 152 251
Total Trablussam Sanjak 43226 44882 11069 13543 3728 5287 31 32 15 26 5 8
Belka Sanjak
Nablis Kaza 13804 16982 285 367 13 22 41 42 112 134 98 130
Benisaap 14963 I6308 6 6
Cemain 9837 II443 3
Cenin 13609 16570 155 158 3 13 14 79 77
Total Belka Sanjak 52213 61303 446 571 13 22 41 48 125 148 177 207
TOTAL BEYRUT
PROVINCE 224040 237994 25672 29304 32 54 19820 22966 1707 1834 I037 1172 1177 1205
BITLIS PROVINCE'
Bitlis Central Sanjak 18817 25650o 1051 18394 10 i6 239 322 96
Siirt 22181 26914 5457 6514 1058 1388 202 233 755
Mua 19789 22858 25698 28078 II03 1373 195 307
Gen 12536 I8309 2375 279I
TOTAL BITLIS
PROVINCE 73323 93731 45581 55777 217I 2777 636 862 851
*BIGA SPECIAL DISTRICT
CanakkaleKaza 4093 4225 2532 2407 432 532 766 72 19 27
Ezine ,, 13826 14693 2094 2332 195 274 114 I26
Ayvacik 7668 8634 6I2 1059 3
Biga 16735 19807 1447 1713 144 136
Lapseki 4707 5080 335 570 8 20 180 222 17
TOTAL BIGA SPECIAL
DISTRICT 47029 52439 7020 8o8I 779 962 180 222 88o 875 i9 27
Administrative Unit F M F M F M F FM
F MM
F M FF MM F
F MMF F M
M F
F M
M F
F
CEZAYIR-I BAHR-I SEFIT
PROVINCEt (AEGEAN
ISLANDS)
Rodos Sanjak (Rhodes)
Rodos Kaza 3024 3443 9537 11174 316 1374
Sombeki 15 21 2691 3185
Meyis s1o 115 2083 2552 3 3
Kirpe 3225 3209
Kasut 22 803 805
Total Rodos Sanjak 3149 36o0 18339 20925 2 1319 1377
Saklz Sanjak
Sakiz Central Kaza 792 9i6 16527 18579 9 5 80 99 14 18
Istanky ,, 1202 1237 5116 5343 32 35
Kalimnos 18 46 4666 4816
Leros 6 12 3674 2949
Kalyot 4 17 3998 4197 2 4
Ipsara 5 4 501 418 2 2
Total Sakiz Sanjak 2027 2232 34482 36302 9 5 116 140 14 18
Midilli Sanjak
Midilli Central Kaza 2261 2533 17864 17231 8 24
Mulve 3022 4570 13320 13737 I2 12
Pilmar 301 358 9218 9506
Yunda 39 50 2059 2358
Total Midilli Sanjak 5623 7511 42461 42832 20 36
Limni Sanjak
Limni Central Kaza 944 1048 9539 10101
Imroz 46 53 4603 4754
Bozcaada 629 618 1163 I316 3 3
Total Limni Sanjak 1619 1719 15305 16171 3 3
TOTAL CEZAYIR-I
BAHR-I SEFIT
PROVINCE 12418 15063 110587 116230 34 44 I 1435 1517 14 i8
CATALCA SPECIAL
DISTRICT
Catalca Central Kaza 3093 3510 4907 5438 604 756
Silivri 169o 2131 4526 4915 436 439 1368 1436 444 521
Biiyiikcekmece 2071 2596 7522 8540 It 13 657 765
TOTAL CATALCA
SPECIAL DISTRICT 6854 8237 16955 18893 447 452 2629 2957 444 522
HALEP PROVINCE'
(ALEPPO)
Halep Central Sanjak 228413 226148 3562 3988 IOo10 11505 7722 7758 4697 4659 237I 2541 84 109 1255
MaraS 54267 61413 9508 11511 1903 2085 107 91 1701 1781 189 109
Urfa 56827 57531 2 4146 5637 244 224 177 182 321 367 489
TOTAL HALEP
PROVINCE 339507 345092 3562 3990 23754 28653 9869 10067 4981 4932 4393 4689 273 2x8 1744
HODAVENDIGAR
PROVINCE (BURSA)
Bursa Sanjak
Bursa Kaza 44641 45022 10702 10584 3232 2594 22 357 293 1281 1303 145 151
Mudanya ,, 2348 2543 5631 616I
Gemlik 7403 7937 3120 3455 7810 8813 37 34
Orhaneli ,,(Adranos) 19290 19139
Mihalic ,, (Karacabey) 9421 1o681 3436 3830 377 377 38 49 25 23
Kirmasti
(M. Kemalpasa) 19128 21000 514 540 404 409
Total Bursa Sanjak 102231 106322 23403 24570 11823 12193 22 357 293 I319 1352 207 208 5 7
Ertuorul Sanjak
Bilecik Kaza 24211 22932 3942 3602 3213 3124 378 372 78 77
Sogiit 19167 19308 767 775 1779 2183 15 26
Inegol 19451 18892 2688 2816 47 47 89 85
YeniSehir ,, 13950 14304 878 862 760 833 4 5
Total Ertugrul Sanjak 76779 75436 5587 5239 8440 8956 440 445 I71 167
Kiitahya Sanjak
Kiitahya Central Kaza 58853 56532 2245 2157 1443 1365 432 34I
Usak 37070 34535 725 707 340 320
Gediz 16932 15966
Simav 166o6 15930 15 60 2 7 2 2
EskiSehir 27470 28608 308 512 568 604 3 81 108 12 40
Total Kiitahya Sanjak 156931 151571 3293 3436 2353 2296 3 515 451 12 40
AfyonkarahisariSanjak
(Karahisar-i Sahip)
Afyon Central Kaza 38405 38274 2615 2699
Emirdal
(Aziziye) 11542 12022 3 6 23 35
Bolvadin 15779 16212
Sandikli 36592 36713 25 69 36 42
Total Afyonkarahisari 102318 103221 28 75 2674 2776
Sanjak
Karesi Sanjak
Balikesir Kaza 53972 56353 958 1002 956 844 265 988
Sindirgi ,, 1165o 1604 400 437
Erdek 1485 11585 14462 14703 8 10 154 146
Bandirma 14519 15473 2762 2725 2282 2I75 443 406
Gnen ,, 11997 11926 855 837 5 8 5 3 6
Edremit 12851 14148 2591 2937 4 6 1 4
Burhaniye ,, (Kemer) 8183 8962 1035 1398 1 8
Ayvalik 40 50 9798 10335
Bigadip 11778 11378 52 99
Total Karesi Sanjak 126475 131479 32913 34473 3256 305I 265 993 443 406 158 156
TOTAL HODAVENDIGAR
PROVINCE 564734 568029 65224 67793 28546 29272 265 1019 1755 1595 1489 1548 378 375 5 7
*DIYARBEKIR PROVINCE
Diyarbekir Sanjak
Diyarbekir Central Kaza 22280 20388 80 112 5772 6311 1194 1366 132 153 473 510 1969
Siverek I3514 14957 726 675 50 2a 70 39 toI
112 261
Lice 8785 10284 2171 2476 143 148 348
Derik 4524 5262 148 175 74 88 69 78 48
Silvan 5186 6189 78 84 3049 3511 69 83 24 2i 239
Total Diyarbekir Sanjak 54289 57080 158 196 11866 13148 1387 1558 202 192 821 858 2865
Mardin Sanjak
Mardin Central Kaza ii266 11 292 1994 2233 218 214 1646
Midyat 9742 11784 24 29 93 118 146 200 1614
Cizre 3168 2867 790 791 85 64 24 36 103
Avniye ioil2 11788 51 70 63 79 260
Nusaybin 2849 2289 154 154 107 1279
Total Mardin Sanjak 37137 40020 24 29 2928 3212 239 171 451 529 4902
Maden Sanjak (Ergani)
Maden Central Kaza 18976 20053 372 44? 1729 2250 7 165 132 27 23
Qermik 11050 13363 2330 2614 200 211 128 H19 477 430
Palu 17035 20588 6104 6729 164 201
Total Maden Sanjak 47061 54004 372 440 10163 11593 7 365 343 128 119 668 654
TOTAL DIYARBEKIR
PROVINCE 138487 151104 530 636 22053 24770 7 4680 5113 569 482 1940 2041 7767
Zor Sanjakb
Deyr Kaza 7801 7464 28 55 125 175 2 1 i
A,are 5334 5170
Resiilan ,, 4152 3942
Total Zor Sanjak 17287 16576 28 55 125 175 2 1 I
SCRIYE PROVINCE' (SYRIA)
Sam Sanjak (Damascus)
Sam Central Kaza 53935 44686 1991 2260 96 103 2249 2535 3088 3177 32 29 43 47
Duma 21185 20927 93 107 75 115
Hasbiya 2665 3078 1406 1573 422 468 5 7 152 162
Rasya 1535 1993 769 883 269 321 9 13
Vaditilacem 17110 17077 784 1033 153 187
Baalbek 6241 6765 489 733 1693 2253
Beka 5999 6633 1064 1347 2298 2944 5 2
Nebak 15828 15762 768 969 1480 1957 22 29
Total Sam Sanjak 124498 116921 7364 8905 96 103 8639 10780 3093 3184 220 235 43 47
Hama Sanjak
Hama Central Kaza 22362 20875 2692 3231 205 246 13 II 2 2
Selimiye 158 172
Humus 21337 20154 2672 3787 2302 2926 102 121
lHamidiye 6541 5913 380 368 22 20
Total Hama Sanjak 50398 47114 5744 7386 2529 3192 '15 132 2 2
TOTAL SCRIYE
PROVINCE 174896 164035 13108 16291 96 103 11168 13972 3093 3184 335 367 45 49
ISELANIK PROVINCE
(SALONICA)
Selanik Sanjak
Selanik Central Kaza 14303 5186 17815 19170 61 88 279 838 230 241 17169 17354
Avrethisari 11427 12193 1252 1421 6958 7626 22 30
Toyra ,, 9627 9796 64 327 I 2708 2897 179 197 79 88
IUsturumca ,, 7855 7905 6619 7107 1423 1542 281 292
Kopril ,, 8778 9315 203 217 15608 17235
Yenice 10825 11748 8363 9792 668 700 4 6 29 73
Vodinc 7227 7735 6669 7539 1861 2082
Tikvc 9671 10238 68 192 10033 11286 7 20
Kesendire 1856 2482 1436I 16006 4 3
Lankaza ,, 14328 15106 9271 10267 808 843 4 3
(Gevgili 8309 8754 6745 7813 2756 3028 694 708
Freferye 3389 3936 7232 7871 96o 1214 183 210
Aynaroz 57 4195 2251
Katrin 1220 1972 9751 10914 4 199 7 25
'otal Selanik Sanjak O18815 116423 89113 103331 65 92 44066 51741 1129 1182 17759 18065
Screz Sanjak
Serez Central Kaza 14935 I6275 1495I 16197 5 9338 10156 514 481
Cumaibala 3015 3109 7 109 7998 8105 13 18
Zihna 3327 3901 10405 11398 1864 2587 15 12
Navrekop 27267 29218 562 591 14341 15722 20 33
emirhisari ,, 7638 8048 6484 6985 4874 5817
Petri 4713 4910 32 39 7915 8702 6
Menlik 3691 4018 1368 1331 5127 5817
Razlik 4973 4822 7334 7740 143 I40
Total Serez Sanjak 69559 74301 33809 36650 5 58791 64646 562 550 143 140
Drama Sanjak
Drama Central Kaza 24120 25051 5659 6632 4 1607 1651 30 28
Kavala 6239 6936 650 11oo 10 25 112 1oo
Sarisaban 8183 8277 58 235 182
Total Drama Sanjak 38542 40264 6367 7967 10 29 1607 1833 I42 128
TOTAL SELANIK
PROVINCE 216916 230988 129289 147948 75 126 104464 118220 1129 1182 18463 18743 143 140
SIVAS PROVINCE
Sivas Sanjak
Sivas Central Kaza 31934 33762 290 252 9990 10456 808 874 44 55
Hafik x6448 16061 5526 5369
SarkiSla ,, (Tenus) 14666 16253 5669 6288
Yildizeli 15627 17070 II 14 421 468
Zara
(Koggiri) 16711 18849 1297 1350 1940 2149 37 30
Divrii 12158 13020 3853 4133
Darende 7923 8678 i113 1163 27 26
Giiriin 5671 5980 3 3006 3152 178 169 240 256
Emirda ,,
(Aziziye) 27389 34153 304 313 1493 1548 20 27
Total Sivas Sanjak 148527 161126 1902 1932 33011 34726 986 1043 368 394
Amasya Sanjak
Amasya Central Kaza 18335 18835 678 736 3030 3134 1o 13 64 66
Vesirkbpr ,,
(Koprii) 13284 16142 928 932 487 507 119 95
Merzifon 9171 9615 74 89 2528 2789 140 139 258 301
Giumiiuhaciky ,, 9938 10309 1045 1104 1286 1314 70 o
Mecitiiz , 15992 15547 80 72 63 69 51 54
Osmancik 8594 8997 3 26 19
Ladik 5477 5879 i000 994 85 94
Havza 6723 6907 1863 1766 39 55
Total Amasya Sanjak 87514 92232 5668 5696 7544 7981 150 152 562 596
KarahiSar-lSarki Sanjak
(*ebinkarahisar)
Karahigar-i$arki
Central Kaza 9500 9921 3814 4698 3491 3627
Mesudiye
(Melet; Hamidiye) 12224 14998 1479 1658 86 132
Suehri ,, 8o86 9423 578 801 4440 5271
Koyulhisar 7791 8576 279 314 24 25
Alucra 10765 11391 202 206
Total Karahigar-t$arki
Sanjak 48366 54309 6352 7677 8041 9055
Tokat Sanjak
Tokat Central Kaza 30818 34526 1079 1088 4277 4921 370 351 104 o15
Zile 23011 25447 26 23 964 I054
Erbaa 17329 18346 1843 1855 790 851
Niksar 7571 8863 946 1081 826 1002
Total Tokat Sanjak 78729 87182 3894 4047 6857 7828 370 351 104 105
Foreigners within the
province 3565 5oo8 193 452 565 937 17 20
TOTAL SIVAS PROVINCE 366701 399857 18009 19804 56018 60527 1506 1546 104 105 963 I031
SUBURBS ADMINISTERED
BY ISTANBUL
MUNICIPALITY
Kisiiukeknece Kaza 1833 3507 4769 6176 505 891 15 25 36 12 19
Gebze ,, 7633 8189 1947 2178 2 6 3
Kartal ,, 2073 3022 3093 3827 401 468 1 2 I
Beykoz ,, 1665 1955 604 729 49 91
Sile 4964 5350 3166 3281 3
Adalar (Islands) , 78 186 2495 3006 196 337 3 66 67 30 35 5 2 9 18
TOTAL ISTANBUL
SUBURBS 18246 22209 16074 19197 I104 1705 21 141 196 30 36 5 2 21 37
Administrative unit F M F M F M F M F M FM F M F M F
TRABZON PROVINCE
Trabzon Sanjak
'rabzon Central Kaza 37091 42038 13027 4561 4440 5 06 588 621 41 51
Ordu 39596 40175 4702 5696 3586 3966 146 142
Giresun ,, 27877 28907 5118 6251 6o1 629
Tirebolu 16622 17607 2659 3213 232 281
Gorele 14584 14889 331 377 99 82
Vakfikebir 9080 9305 29 27
Akcaabat 19062 19742 838 1997 1367 1591
Siirmene ,, 15003 20926 2339 2624 71 107
Of 30163 29697 351 446
Total Trabzon Sanjak 209078 223286 30365 35165 10434 11789 588 621 187 193
Canik Sanjak (Samsun)
Canik Central Kaza 15502 17917 15297 17628 454 709 41 23 5 25 23
QarSamba ,, 22684 24913 1497 1617 4670 5105 193 224
lnya ,, 21348 21960 1781 1914 662 1973
Fatsa ,, 13739 14156 706 946 354 448
'I'erme ,, 9085 9953 205 223 763 878
Bafra 19200 9736 0o68 11766 466 546
Total Canik Sanjak 101558 108635 30554 34094 8369 9659 5 218 247
Lazistan Sanjak
Rize Kaza 31595 41154 308 333
Pazar(atina) 17246 16192 20 22
Hopa 15046 14305 52 2 5
'I'otal Lizistan Sanjak 63887 71651 308 385 22 27
Giimii5hane Sanjak
Giiumihane Central Kaza 10200 1756 2666 2793 514 638
'Torul ,, 9001 10457 8000 8679
Kelkit 11059 12191 163 141 58 55
Siran 7115 7406 834 892 1oo 121
Total Giimuihane Sanjak 37375 41810 11663 12505 672 814
TOTAL TRABZON
PROVINCE 411898 445382 72890 82149 19497 22289 629 644 5 405 440
*KASTAMONU PROVINCE
Kastamonu Sanjak
Kastamonu Central Kaza 28107 26288 813 782 26i 300
Inebolu 29678 29004 739 758 9 8
Safranbolu 24070 25127 1658 i668
Tosya 16288 16731 256 225
Taskoprii 19564 20075 300 296
Daday 20734 19714 6 4 86 96
Ara ,, 15878 17253
Cide I943I 19538
Total Kastamonu Sanjak 173756 173730 3772 3763 356 404
Bolu Sanjak
Bolu Central Kaza 21632 21034 17 397 428
Bartin ,, 24284 25535 200 180 95 100
EreAli
(K. Deniz) 15926 17981 363 372
Gerede 20174 19130 27 97 7 23
Goyniik ,, 8377 7762 2 9
Diizse 14497 16015 22 58 13 52
Mudurnu ,, (Mud) 13341 13148
Hamidiye ,, 21389 28231 162 192
Total Bolu Sanjak 139620 148836 614 733 667 779 36
Sinop Sanjak
Sinop Central Kaza 19519 20735 2048 2015 123 150
Boyabat 20132 22549 22 62
Ayancik 13960 14629 575 638
Total Sinop Sanjak 53611 57913 2645 2715 123 150
Cankiri Sanjak
Cankiri Central Kaza 41190 42917 368 390 155 143
Cerkes 26957 27529
Iskilip 20724 22517
Total Cankiri Sanjak 88871 92963 368 390 155 143
TOTAL KASTAMONU
PROVINCE 455858 473442 7399 76o0 1301 1476 36
KOSOVA PROVINCE'
Cskiip Sanjak (Skopje)
Uskiip Central Kaza 19469 20787 3219 3436 10829 11668 308 416 38
Iltip 11437 12729 8131 9444 260 250
Karatova 2193 2139 11 24 9369 I0249
Radvite ,, 4698 5821 3541 3823 43 54
Komanova ,, 5935 6333 12 2 75 13591 15887 1 7
Planka 1013 o165 171 217 8904 9292
Kacana 10684 11555 34 49 15897 17223
'I'otal CskuipSanjak 55429 60429 3447 3801 70262 77586 568 666 43 54 i 45
Pristine Sanjak
Pristine Central Kaza 24634 27980 7271 7997 152 153 764 869
Vilcitrin 6759 14193 811 2116
Metrovie ,, 1033 340o 512 3398
Gilan 14288 18450 9645 9660 716 oo00
Pre?uva 7770 8168 12179 13868
'I'otal Pristine Sanjak 54484 72192 30418 37039 152 153 1480 1769
Yenipazar Sanjak
Senice Kaza 5485 7548 3697 4063 5 7
Yenipazar 9145 9958 7386 7796 78 72
Akova 6168 7272 2217 2416
Yenivaro ,, 680 658 3449 3594 2 3
ASagikolain ,, 2472 554
Total Yenipazar Sanjak 21478 27908 16749 18423 85 82
Taslica Sanjak
'aslica Central Kaza 6155 7789 2592 4545
Prepol ,, 3097 3514 4850 5168
Total Taslica Sanjak 9252 11303 7442 9713
Ipek Sanjak
Ipek Central Kaza 4348 374
Yakova 9721 261 949
TergoviSte 4606 781
Berane 620 1640
Gosine 2259 356 10
Total Ipek Sanjak 25320 7386 1333
Prizrin Sanjak
Prizrin Central Kaza 35492 7100 96o
Lume 7011
Kalkandelen 29212 4990 9830
Total Prizrin Sanjak 71715 4990 16930 960
TOTAL KOSOVA
PROVINCE 140643 268867 10889 18504 117429 157364 805 901 43 54 1481 4107
*KONYA PROVINCE
Konya Sanjak
Konya Central Kaza 46348 46468 2150 i866 760 8o6 9 28
Aksehir 21158 22107 872 839 1582 T552
Ilgin 10943 11128 12 43
Seydiiehir 8596 9304 46 47
Bozkir , 18369 19100 44 5
Hadim 5637 6026
BeySehri 17702 17621 96 57
Karaman , (Larende) 18223 18504 6o 64 287 316
Erefli 11682 12348 87 80 221 220 6 2
Karapinar , 8214 8024
Koohisar 8770 11857 9 3
Total Konya Sanjak 175642 182487 3367 3055 2850 2897 15 30 22 19
Hamitabat Sanjak (Isparta)
Isparta Kaza 21878 21683 2265 2259 300 319
Uluborlu ,, 7636 6597 429 392
Yalvay 12919 12720
Karaa#av ,, 10203 9974
Egridir 9803 9884 678 657
Total Hamitabat Sanjak 64239 60858 3372 3308 300 319
Teke Sanjak (Antalya)
Antalya Kaza 37494 35468 2072 1987 26 23 104 112
Alanya , (Alaiye) 17699 19261 439 515
Akseki 13545 13838 7
Elmalh 11752 11846 104 o05 118 128
Kae 8716 8766 2 5
Total Teke Sanjak 89206 89179 2617 2619 144 151 104 i12
Burdur Sanjak
Burdur Central Kaza 18766 18447 874 880 409 401
Tefenni 8363 9424
Total Burdur Sanjak 27129 27871 874 880 409 401
Ni5de Sanjak
Nigde Kaza 17149 19719 7365 8360 370 473
Nev?ehir 14093 16277 4353 4565 192 285 19 I7 9 12
Orgiip 9956 9924 1636 1498 9 7
Aksaray ,, 17279 20128 I8 1319 200 278 25 30
Giilehri ,, (Arapsun) 5380 5649 2019 1916 10 10
Bor 9665 9351 469 520 247 261 10 12
Ulukila ,, (Hamidiye) 3551 4300 631 700
Total Nikde Sanjak 77073 85348 17591 18898 1028 1314 19 17 44 54
TOTAL KONYA
PROVINCE 431489 445743 27821 28740 4731 5082 34 47 104 112 66 73
*KUDOS SPECIAL
DISTRICT
Kudiis Central Kaza 26317 28047 5750 6272 343 504 i8 33 3535 3570 38 296 2878 3174
Yafa 21281 23894 1826 2071 4? 52 I72 199 167 227 46 63 312 393
Gazze ,, 27951 31566 379 389 6 5 14 19
Haliilrahman ,, 18852 21705 1 14 291 320 3 56
TOTAL KUDOS SPECIAL
DISTRICT 94401 105212 7956 8746 383 556 190 232 3993 4117 290 364 3207 3642
ELAZIZ PROVINCEt (Elazi)
Elaziz Central Kaza 64244 70517 163 184 23940 27156 373 391 I826 2381 185 196
Malatya 55361 68977 4 5 4427 4605 491 66o 248 298 98 70
Hozat ,,
(Dersim) 10489 11688 90 92 4845 5792 120 98
Mazgirt ,, 7979 10933 976 1437 2
TOTAL ELAZIZ 864
1o51
PROVINCE 138073 162115 262 281 34188 38990 864 1o01 2 2194 2777 283 266
MUSUL PROVINCE'
Musul Central Kaza 27881 1 45 2809 692 74
Dehiik 4834 1742 496
Akra 6183 170 283
Zaku 1655 228 543
Zibar 26o1 76 57
Sincar 3442
Kerkiik 22008 2 245 441
Salahiye 9559 157
Erbil 10677 340 620
Ranye 5389 45
Koysancak 8680 205 134
Ravandiz ,, 11147 359
Sileymaniye 14556 54 218
Giilanber ,, 6313 59
Morge 6320 35
Sehirpazar 5330
Bazyan ,, 4408 2 26
Umadiye 13601 1213 121 58
TOTAL MUSUL PROVINCE 164593 3 45 7082 4286 102
MANASTIR PROVINCE"
Manastir Sanjak
Manastir Central Kaza 15535 14982 19503 21574 12 29816 31678 2095 2179 16 18
Pirlipe 6969 7301 598 650 20236 23527
Ohri 7754 86o6 1505 1544 16266 17040
Filorina 6409 6454 12950 14212 1544 1810
Kir;ova 6579 6703 3 61 10216 1o663 3 1
Total Manastir Sanjak 43246 44046 34559 38041 12 78078 84718 2095 2179 19 19
Gorice Sanjak
Gorice Central Kaza 15129 17630 14666 15809 1045 1089
Kesriye 5943 7170 5014 6411 15912 19676 407 367
Istarve 1oo89 11017 1450 1578
Kolovine 4466 5045 2841 2973
Total G6rice Sanjak 35627 40862 33971 26771 16957 20765 407 367
Serfice Sanjak
Serfice Central Kaza 1797 2249 6043 6849
Alasonya 1040 1148 11676 12955
Kozana 7511 7506 5988 6645
Cuma 13656 15191 1344 1551 2424 2950
Nasli , 3352 3767 11379 11995
Grebene 2066 2470 12980 15019
Total Serfice Sanjak 29422 32331 49410 550I4 3 2424 2950 24
TOTAL MANASTIR
PROVINCE o08295 117239 107940 I19826 17 97459 108433 2502 2570 19 I9
VAN PROVINCE'
Van Sanjak
Van Central Kaza 8324 9772 14052 19001
Erci ,, 3836 3899 I418 2293
Adilcevaz 2963 3266 i66i 2379
Karickan 26I8 3575 1748 2618
Gevas 1864 2564 2023 2779
Mekri 1576 1972 2152 2082
Muradiye (Bargiri) 1805 1696 619 764
Catak , (Sitak) 2188 2664 1715 2078
Total Van Sanjak 25174 29408 25388 33994
Hakkari Sanjak
Mamuretilhamidiye 2281 2549 626 440
Total Hakkari Sanjak 2281 2549 626 440
TOTAL VAN
PROVINCE 27455 31957 26014 34434
*YANYA PROVINCE
(ANINA)
Yanya Sanjak
Yanya Central Kaza 2124 2635 37694 39564 1531 1803
Aydonat ,, 1681 2310 4843 5748
Filat t 4582 5358 6878 7354 I8 20
Mecva ,, 2336 2723
Leskovik ,, 2219 2528 6585 6976 3
Konice ,, 614 815 7173 7965 3
Pogon ,. 413 540 ioi6o 9943 4 12
Permedi ,, 8747 9714 5031 5380 3 1
Total Yanya Sanjak 20380 23900 80700 85653 IS56 1842
Ergiri Sanjak
Ergiri Central Kaza 5767 6024 9458 9139
Delvine ,, 2810 3075 6571 7154 1
Tepedelen ,, 9211 10456 3113 3135
Kurveles ,, 5295 5241 2533 2635
Total Ergiri Sanjak 23083 24796 21675 22363
Berat Sanjak
Berat Central Kaza 34033 38119 16895 18791 2 3
Go'ince ,, 3597 3954 86 178
Avlonya ,, 1 376 13614 1916 2595 35 48 12 19
Lusne , 5450 5950 I56 163
Total Berat Sanjak 54456 61637 19053 21727 35 48 14 22
Preveze Sanjak
Preveze Central Kaza 754 887 4233 5422 6o 132
Loros ,, 383 785 7179 786z 12 34
Margilic , 6533 7821 4956 5481 4
Total Preveze Sanjak 7670 9493 16368 18765 72 170
TOTAL YANYA
PROVINCE 105589 119826 137796 148508 35 48 1642 2035
ISTANBUL CITY AND
GREATER ISTANBUL 183571 201339 60937 91804 65720 83870 400 3977 3233 3209 21967 22394 331 488 554 528
' Census completed except for the Celali tribe. Tribes not included.
b Census completed only for Drag Sanjak, dependent Kazas, and centrally dependent AkhahisarKaza. Census completed except for Havran Sa
Females are excluded from the census, and the census of the males is not yet completed. t Census completed except for Prezrin, Ip
2 Census completed except for Lazkiye Sanjak. Dersin Sanjak excluded.
' Census has not yet been completed. Tribes not included.
t Census has been completed except for the Sporato Islands. Census completed except for Debre and
' Except tribal population. Census completed except for Hakkari Sa
Total populationof Ottoman State, 1893, by Province
F M F M F M F F
M M F M F M F
Provinces and Special Districts
Aydin Province 547696 571627 92894 103664 7419 338 29o 452 423 10731 11422 77 76 464 586
Edirne 211478 22z888 128853 138367 8545 49261 52984 489 535 6608 7109 137 142 4
Erzurum ,, 204993 240555 1593 1703 40o0O 55058 3110 3620 3 3 873 1097
Adana 162984 178392 2755 3507 2075z 24047 750 903 1028 11I6 39
Ilkodra 39168 39432 2768 3145 1439 1358
Ankara 362504 373262 17506 17409 32659 34831 3226 3077 225 190 I 125 1115
Izmit Special District 65775 67342 11352 12366 18309 18911 8 63 70 81 88 521 587
Bagdat Province 756 149352 349 875 33 12682 17 49
Basra 10154 35 lo8 421 135
Beyrut , 224040 237994 25672 29304 32 54 19820 22966 1707 1834 1037 1172 1177 1205
Bitlis 73323 93731 45581 55777 2171 2777 636 862 8851
Biga Special District 47029 52439 7020 808i 779 962 80 222 880 875 19 27
Cezayir-i Bahr-i Seit
Province 12418 15063 110587 116230 34 44 1435 1517 14 18
Catalca Special District 6854 8237 16955 18893 447 452 2629 2957 444 522
Halep Province 339507 345092 3562 3990 23754 28653 9869 10067 4981 4932 4393 4689 273 218 744
Hiidavendigar 564734 568029 65224 67793 28546 29272 265 o109 1755 I595 1489 1548 378 375 5 7
Diyarbekir 138487 151104 530 636 22053 24770 7 4680 5113 569 482 1940 2041 7'767
Zor Sanjak 17287 16576 28 55 125 175 2 t 1
Siriye Province 174896 164035 13108 16291 96 103 11168 13972 3093 3184 335 367 45 49
Selanik 216916 230988 129289 147948 75 12610446446 118220 1129 1182 18463 18743 143 140
Sivas 366701 399857 18009 19804 56018 60527 1506 1546 104 105 963 1031
Istanbul Suburbs 18246 22209 16074 19197 I104 1705 21 141 196 38 36 5 2 2I 37
Trabzon Province 411898 445382 72890 82149 19497 22289 629 644 5 405 440
Kastamonu , 455858 473442 7399 7601 1301 1476 2 36
Kosova ,, 140643 268867 10889 18504 110429 157364 9o1 43 54 I48I 4107
Konya 431489 445743 27821 28740 4731 5082 34 47 104 112 66 73
Kudiis Special District 94401 105212 7956 8746 383 556 190 232 3993 4117 290 364 3207 3642
Elaziz Province 138073 162115 262 28I 34188 38990 864 1051 2 2194 2777 283 266
Musul , 164593 3 45 7082 4286 102
Manastir , 108295 117239 107940 119826 12 17 97459 108433 I 2502 2570 I9 I9
Van 27455 31957 26014 34434
Yanya 105589 119826 137796 148508 35 48 1642 2035
Total 5709493 6492734 1036704 1142746 39729I 454584 371831 441527 63645 79699 59922 79723 16628 18821 6970 ioi88 10440I
Istanbul City and Greater
Istanbul 183571 201339 60937 91804 65720 83870 400 3977 3233 3209 21967 22394 331 488 554 528
Grand total 5893064 6694073 1097641 1234550 463011 538454 372231 445504 66878 82908 81889 102217 16959 19309 7524 1o716 104 o01

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Ottoman Population Records and the Census of 1881/82-1893

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OTTOMAN POPULATION RECORDS AND

Population movements have always played a dynamic role in the transformation

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sions regardless of limitations imposed by culture, historical experience, and

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information concerning the population of the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle

II. PLACE AND FUNCTION OF CENSUSES AND POPULATION REGISTERS

Population censuses, land surveys, and eventually the permanent population

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III. THE OTTOMAN CENSUSES AND POPULATION ADMINISTRATION IN

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government never developed a regular population registration system to record

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IV. THE FIRST ATTEMPTS AT ESTABLISHING A MODERN POPULATION

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population registers. The census committee was empowered to use force

27 Ibid., art. 8-io. Boys under the

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V. THE CENSUS AND REGISTRATION SYSTEM OF I881/82

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identity card, to be used in the increasingly frequent contacts taking place

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1310 1308 1892 Nuri Bey

1323 1321 1905 ,, ,, ,

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VI. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POPULATION CENSUS AND REGISTRA-

TABLE I Population of Istanbul in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Year Muslims Non-Muslims Total

H I260 (1844) 102,532 III,I60 213,692 (males only)

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the government to be as thorough as possible. It is my considered opinion that

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Statistics of Population of Sivas Vilayet compiled by the British

Supplied by the Armenian Patriarch to Her

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