Salonica vilayet

Sanjaks of the Vilayet: • Sanjak of Selanik (Thessaloniki, Kesendire, Karaferye, Vodina, Yenice-i Vardar, Langaza, Kılkış (It was also called Avrathisar), Katrin, Aynaroz, Doyran, Usturumca, Tikveş, Gevgili) • Sanjak of Siroz (Serez, Zihne, Demirhisar, Razlık, Cuma-yı Bala, Menlik, Nevrekop) • Sanjak of Drama (Drama, Kavala, Sarışaban, Taşoz (It was later promoted to sanjak), Pravişte, Dövlen) • Sanjak of Taşoz (It was initially part of Sanjak of Drama, its center was Vulgaro) == Demographics ==

According to the 1881/82-1893 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 1.009.992 people, ethnically consisting as: • Muslims - 450.456 • Greeks - 282.013 • Bulgarians - 231.606 • Jews - 41.984 • Catholics - 2.654 • Protestants - 329 • Armenians - 48 • Foreign citizens - 1.272 According to the 1905/06 Ottoman Census, the vilayet had a total population of 921,359 people, ethnically consisting as: • Muslims - 419.604 • Orthodox Greeks - 263.881 • Orthodox Bulgarians - 155.710 • Jews - 52.395 • Wallachians (Vlachs) - 20.486 • Gypsies - 4.736 • Catholic Greeks - 2.693 • Oriental Armenians - 637 • Protestants - 329 • Catholic Armenians - 58 • Latins - 31 • Syrians - 4 • Foreign citizens - 795 However, according to the Ottoman Archives, the Vilayet's main ethnoconfessional groups according to the 1905/06 Ottoman Census are: • Muslims - 510,125 • Orthodox Greeks (Patriarchists) - 326,030 • Orthodox Bulgarians (Exarchists) - 229,422 • Jews - 52,645 By sanjaks, the four main ethnoconfessional groups number, as follows: According to an estimate by Aram Andonian in 1908 there was the following ethnic distribution in the vilayet: • Orthodox Bulgarians - 446,050 • Muslim Turks - 333,440 • Orthodox Greeks - 168,500 • Muslim Bulgarians - 98,590 • Jews - 55,320 • Orthodox Vlachs - 24,970 • Muslim Gypsies - 22,200 • Mixed - 16,320 ==Governors==

• Mehmet Akif Pasha (June 1867 - February 1869) • Mehmed Sabri Pasha (February 1869 - September 1871) • Kekimbashi Ismail Pasha (September 1871 - May 1872) • Hurshid Pasha (May 1872 - August 1872) • Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (1st time) (August 1872 - May 1873) • Mehmet Akif Pasha (3rd time) (May 1873 - September 1873) • Ahmed Midhat Sefik Pasha (October 1873 - February 1874) • Kücük Ömer Fevzi Pasha (2nd time) (February 1874 - September 1875) • Baytar Mehmed Refet Pasha (December 1875 - June 1876) • Mustafa Esref Pasha (June 1876 - April 1877) • Cerkez Nusret Pasha (June 1877 - December 1877) • Ibrahim Halil Pasha (December 1877 - July 1878) • Halil Rifat Pasha (July 1878 - March 1880) • Abidin Pasha (March 1880 - June 1880) • Lofçali Ibrahim Dervish Pasha (August 1880 - January 1882) • Ismail Hakki Pasha (March 1882 - September 1885) • Hasan Hakki Pasha (September 1885 - August 1886) • Abdullah Galib Pasha (August 1886 - August 1891) • Mustafa Zihni Pasha (October 1891 - November 1895) • Hasan Fehmi Pasha (1st time) (1895) • Ramazanoglu Hüseyin Riza Pasha (January 1896 - January 1899) • Haci Hasan Refik Pasha (January 1899 - May 1901) • Biren Mahmud Tevfik Beg (May 1901 - May 1902) • Hasan Fehmi Pasha (2nd time) (May 1902 - September 1904) • Mehmed Sherif Ra'uf Pasha (September 1904 - August 1908) • Ali Danis Beg (August 1908 - September 1909) • Pirizade Ibrahim Hayrullah Bey (September 1909 - January 1912) • Kadri Huseyin Kazim Bey (January 1912 - 8 August 1912) • Ali Ferid Pasha (August 1912 - September 1912) ==Notes==