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TURKEY.
According to other non-official estimates, the total population of the empire, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, did not amount, in 1869, to more than 32,000,000. Calculations based upon the returns of the collectors of the Verghi, or poll-tax, in the year 1868, give a population of not more than 13,500,000 to Turkey in Europe.
The total population, estimated, according to the official enume- ration taken in 1844, at 35,350,000, is distributed as follows, in the different divisions of the empire : —
Turkey in Europe.
Thrace Bulgaria
Koumelia and Thessaly Albania
Bosnia and the Herze- govina . . The Islands Moldavia Wallachia . Servia .
1,800,000 3,000,000 2,700,000 1,200,000
1,100,000 700,000 1,400,000 2,600,000 1,000,000
15,500,000
Turkey in Asia.
Asia Minor, or Anatolia 10,700,000 Syria, Mesopotamia, and
Kurdistan . . 4,450,000
Arabia . . . 900,000
16,050,000 Turkey in Africa. Egypt .... 2,000,000 Tripoli, Fez, and Tunis 1,800,000
3,800,000 Total . 35,350,000
The various races of which the population of the empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa is composed, are thus classified in the census taken in 1844 : —
Races
In Europe
In Asia
In Africa
Total
Ottomans .
2,100,000
10,700,000
—
12,800,000
Greeks
1,000,000
1,000,000
—
2,000,000
Armenians .
400,000
2,000,000
—
2,400,000
Jews ....
70,000
80,000
—
150,000
Slaves or Slavonians .
6,200,000
—
—
6,200,000
Koumains .
4,000,000
—
—
4,000,000
Albanians .
1,600,000
—
—
1,500,000
Tartars
16,000
20,000
—
36,000
Arabs
. —
885,000
3,800,000
4,685,000
Syrians and Chaldeans
—
200,000
—
200,000
Druses
—
80,000
—
80,000
Kurds
—
100,000
—
1,000,000
Turkomans
—
85,000
—
85,000
Gipsies
Total .
214,000
—
—
214,000
15,500,000
16,050,000
3,800,000
35,350 000
The territories of the Turkish empire in Europe are divided into 14 Eyalets, or Governments, and subdivided into 43 Sandjaks, or provinces, and 376 Kazas, or districts. In Turkey in Asia there are 18 Eyalets, 78 Sandjaks, and 858 Kazas; and hi Turkey in Africa, 3 Eyalets, 17 Sandjaks, and 86 Kazas.
