Adrianople Vilayet

The Vilayet of Edirne ( Ottoman ولايت ادرنه, IA Vilayet -i Edirne ) was a vilayet ( province) of the Ottoman Empire.

Adrian Opel ( Edirne ) was conquered in 1361 or after 1366 by the Ottomans and was up to the conquest of Constantinople the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Later, it was the capital of Eyaletes Rumeli. Only in the 19th century, a vilayet was formed from it. It consisted of four Sanjak. This vilayet included territories in Eastern Thrace in today's European part of Turkey and the eastern part of Northern Greece and the southern edge Südbulgariens. The city of Edirne (formerly Adrian Opel ) was the capital of the vilayets. After Edirne, which in 1905 had more than 80,000 inhabitants, the major cities were Rodosto ( 35,000 ), Gallipoli ( 25,000 ), Kırkkilise (16,000 ), Xanthi ( 14,000 ), Çorlu ( 11,500 ), Dimotika (10,000 ), Enos ( 8000 ), Gyumyurdzhina ( 8000 ) and Dedeagatch ( 3000 ). In the east, the province bordering on the Vilayet of Istanbul, the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, the west by the Vilayet of Salonika, in northern Bulgaria and the south by the Aegean Sea.

Even in 1914 after the Second Balkan War and the expulsion of Thracian Bulgarians were 306 411 inhabitants in Edirne vilayet Muslims 1914 224 680 Greeks, 19,773 Armenians and 22,525 Jews.