The Vilayet of Manastir ()Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 . in the website of HathiTrust Digital Library. was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879. 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.
Administrative divisions
Initially the Manastir Vilayet had the following sanjaks: Sanjak of Manastir Sanjak of Prizren Sanjak of Dibra Sanjak of Scutari
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 administrative divisions of the Manastir Vilayet until 1912 were:http://tarihvemedeniyet.org/documents/makaleler/20.%20yy%20Osmanli%20Vilayetleri.pdf Ottoman Provinces before 1908 Sanjak of Monastir: Kazas of Manastir (Bitola), Pirlepe (Prilep), Florina, Kıraçova (Kičevo) and Ohrid. Sanjak of Serfiğe (Between 1864–1867 and 1873–1892): Kazas of Serfiçe (modern Servia), Kozana (modern Kozani), Alasonya (modern Elasson), Kayalar (Ptolemaida), Nasliç (modern Neapolis, Kozani) and Grebne (modern Grevena). Sanjak of Dibra: Kazas of Debre-i Bala (Debar), Mat, Debre-i Zir (Its center was Piskopoya), Rakalar (region around river Radika, its local name is River region ()). Sanjak of Elbasan (İlbasan): Kazas of İlbasan, Grameç and Peklin. Sanjak of Görice: Kazas of Görice (Korçë), İstarova (Pogradec), Kolonya (Erseke) (Its center was Ersek) and Kesriye (Kastoria).
Demographics 1897 According to Russian consul in the Manastir Vilayet, A. Rostkovski, finishing the statistical article in 1897, the total population was 803,340, with Rostkovski grouping the population into the following groups:
Turks, Ottomans: 78,867 Albanians, Ghegs: 144,918 Albanians, Tosks: 81,518 Albanians, Christians: 35,525 Slavs, Exarchists: 186,656 Slavs, Patriarchists: 93,694 Slavs, Muslims: 11,542 Greeks, Christians: 97,439 Greeks, Muslims: 10,584 Vlachs (Aromanians): 53,227 Jews: 5,270
1906/07 According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 824,828 people, ethnically consisting as:Kemal Karpat (1985), Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics, The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 168-169 Muslims – 328,551 Christian Greeks – 286,001 Christian Bulgarians – 197,088 Wallachians – 5,556 Jews – 5,459 Gypsies – 2,104 Armenians – 8 Protestants – 5 Latins – 3 Foreign citizens – 53
1911 According to Ottoman census data, the ethnoreligious composition in 1911 was the following (Serbs and Orthodox Albanians were included as either Greeks or Bulgarians):Teaching Modern Southeast European History . Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26 Muslims – 455,720 Greeks – 349.541 Bulgarians – 246,344 Jews – 10,651 Armenians – 9 Other – 2,614 1912 According to an estimation published in a Belgian magazine, the ethnic composition in 1912 when the vilayet was dissolved during the First Balkan War was:Published on December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (Our Nation Awakes) - view the table of Vilajet Manastir: Skynet GodsdBalkan Orthodox Bulgarians – 331,000 Muslim Albanians – 219,000 Orthodox Vlachs – 65,500 Orthodox Greeks – 62,000 Muslim Bulgarians – 24,000 Muslim Turks – 11,500 mixed – 35,000
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