Beirut vilayet

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Beirut vilayet

The Vilayet of Beirut (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت, romanized: Vilâyet-i Beyrut; Arabic: ولاية بيروت) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It was established from the coastal areas of the Syria Vilayet in 1888 as a recognition of the new-found importance of its then-booming capital, Beirut, which had experienced remarkable growth in the previous years — by 1907, Beirut handled 11 percent of the Ottoman Empire's international trade.[2] It stretched from just north of Jaffa to the port city of Latakia.[3] It was bounded by the Syria Vilayet to the east, the Aleppo Vilayet to the north, the autonomous Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.

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Vilayet of Beirut
Arabic: ولاية بيروت
Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1888–1917
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Map of the Ottoman Levant showing the Beirut Vilayet and its Sanjaks.
CapitalBeirut
Area 
 1885[1]
30,490 km2 (11,770 sq mi)
Population 
 1885[1]
533,500
History 
 Established
1888
 Disestablished
1917
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mount Lebanon Emirate
Tripoli Eyalet
Sidon Eyalet
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
Today part ofLebanon
Israel
Palestine
Syria
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At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of 11,773 square miles (30,490 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 533,500.[1] It was the 4th most heavily populated region of the Ottoman Empire's 36 provinces.[4]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the vilayet:[5]

  1. Latakia Sanjak
  2. Tripoli Sanjak
  3. Beirut Sanjak
  4. Akka Sanjak
  5. Nablus Sanjak

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