Ο “Σαλναμέ” του βιλαετιού Κοσσόβου του έτους 1318 εγείρας (1900)

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Αναστάσιος Κ. Ιορδάνογλου

Abstract

The first Ottoman year-books were published in the midnineteenth century by
the Ottoman state, the ministries, the vilayets, and by private bodies. Of these, the
year-books of the vilayets of the Ottoman Empire are extremely important, because
they concern such a wide range of subjects, including administration, history,
geography, education, population, public buildings, and economic life.
Eight Ottoman year-books were published (in 1879, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888,
1893, 1896, and 1900) for the vilayet of Kossovo, which included the sanjak of
Skopje. According to the demographic data in these eight year-books, the vilayet
was inhabited by Albanians, Turks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks, Jews, Latins, Copts,
Armenians, and Gypsies.
The ethnic make-up of the population is given in the year-book for AH 1311
(1893), which has the following figures for the sanjak of Skopje: Bulgarians 53.9%,
Moslems (Albanians and Turks) 42.67%, Greeks 2.63%, Jews 0.47%, Protestants
0,04%, Latins 0.01%, Copts 0.28%. As far as the schools are concerned, the yearbooks
describe them as Moslem, Bulgarian, Greek, Vlach, Serbian, and Jewish.
Lessons in the schools were conducted in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Bulgarian, Greek,
Serbian, and Spanish, and French was taught as a foreign language.

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