Monastir vilayet

North Macedonia, 1864–1912. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Vilayet of Manastir was a first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. After some administrative reforms accomplished in 1867 and 1877 parts of the Manastir Vilayet were ceded to newly established Scutari Vilayet (1867) and Kosovo Vilayet (1877). The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Serbia, with some parts later becoming part of the newly established Principality of Albania.

Seat of power: Bitola

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• Bitola has been known since the Ottoman period as the City of Consuls, since many European countries had consulates there.
• Bitola was the last capital of Ottoman Rumelia, from 1836 to 1867.
• According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 824,828 people.

Picture

Bitola, known during the Ottoman Empire as Manastır or Monastir, is one of the oldest cities in North Macedonia.

Image: Tommyy882, CC BY-SA 3.0, file

Sources

• Manastir vilayet (Wikipedia)
• Monastir vilayet (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

Text adapted from the Wikipedia articles listed as sources, CC BY-SA 4.0.