| Vilayet of Beirut Arabic:ولاية بيروت Ottoman Turkish:ولايت بيروت | |||||||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1888–1917 | |||||||||||||
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 Map of the Ottoman Levant showing the Beirut Vilayet and its Sanjaks. | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Beirut | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• 1885[1] | 30,490 km2 (11,770 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1885[1] | 533,500 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1888 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1917 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Lebanon Israel Palestine Syria | ||||||||||||
TheVilayet of Beirut (Ottoman Turkish:ولايت بيروت,romanized: Vilâyet-i Beyrut;Arabic:ولاية بيروت) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of theOttoman Empire. It was established from the coastal areas of theSyria 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 ofJaffa to the port city ofLatakia.[3] It was bounded by theSyria Vilayet to the east, theAleppo Vilayet to the north, the autonomousMutasarrifate of Jerusalem to the south and theMediterranean Sea to the west.
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 mostheavily populated region of theOttoman Empire's 36 provinces.[4]
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Table IV.2 Population Density per km2, and Density Rank, 1894/95 (R. 1310), Rank 4, with population of 573,000 and density of 45.47 per km2; underlying source IUKTY 9075
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)."Beirut" .Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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