Commemporative plate of the Bursa (Prousa) Vilayet and City at the Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin) Province of Hüdavendigâr (Bursa/Prousa; Vital Cuinet, 1895; source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:CUINET(1895)_4.017_Vilayet_of_H%C3%BCdavendig%C3%A2r.jpg) The Province With 68,000 square kilometers, five sancaks as well as the mutesarrifliks Izmit (11,130 square kilometers) and Kütahya, the Vilayet Bursa/Prousa/Hüdavendigâr in the northwest of Asia Minor belonged to the extensive provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The history of this sultanate is closely connected with the region: Here the Ottoman Empire emerged from one of the many Oghuz beyliks (principalities) that had formed in Anatolia after the Seljuk invasion in the 11th century; some of them were in [...]
Archives: Regions
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Aydın / Αϊδίνιο – Aidinio / Σμύρνα – Smyrna / Σμύρνη – Smýrni Vilayet (Province)
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin): Commemorative Plate for Aydin Located in the south-west of Asia Minor, the province of Aydın comprised the ancient regions of Lydia, Ionia, Caria and western Lycia. The Encyclopædia Britannica described it by 1911 as the “richest and most productive province of Asiatic Turkey”. [1] Map of the Aydin/Smyrna Vilayet (by Vital Cuinet, 1894; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A2yet_Ayd%C4%B1n#/media/Datei:CUINET(1894)_3.348_Smyrne_Vilayet.jpg) Toponym The name of the province comes from the principality of the Aydınoğulları, who ruled the region before the Ottomans (in Greek: Αϊδίνιο – Aidinio). The province was also known as Smyrna or Smyrni province after its capital of the same name. Administration The Vilâyet Aydın, established in [...]
Mutesarriflik (sancak) Izmit / Nikomedia, Nikomidia, Nicomedia
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin): Commemorative Plate for Izmit (Nikomedia) [...]
Adrianople / Αδριανούπολις – Adrianoupolis / Edirne Vilayet (Province)
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Adrianople / Edirne Toponym The capital city of Thrace was founded as Hadrianopolis (Adrianople in English; Grk.: Ἁδριανούπολις), named after the Roman emperor Hadrian, on the site of a previous Thracian settlement named Uskudama. The Ottoman toponym Edirne (أدرنة) derives from the Greek name. Landscape near Edirne (East Thrace; source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/EastTrace_Landscape.jpg) Administration Adrianople was conquered by the Ottomans in 1361 or after 1366 and was the capital of the Ottoman Empire until the conquest of Constantinople. The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne comprised almost all of the historical geographical region of Thrace. It was constituted from parts of [...]
Ankara / Angora / Ἄγκυρα – Ánkyra Vilayet (Province)
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Ankara Map of the Ankara Vilayet (1890; Vital Cuinet; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/CUINET%281890%29_1.282_Ankara_Vilayet.jpg) The province of Angora was strongly agricultural, depending on the prosperity of its grain and wool production and mohair – obtained from the Angora goat. Another important industry was carpet weaving in Kırşehir and Kayseri. There were mines for silver, copper, lignite and salt. Toponym The current toponym derives from Greek ‘ Ἄγκυρα – Ánkyra’ (anchor). On 13 October 1923, the provincial capital – now the capital of the Republic of Turkey – was officially renamed Ankara. Administration The province of Ankara (Angora), created in 1864, consisted of the [...]