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Vilayet of the Archipelago
The Vilayet of the Archipelago (, "Vilâyet-i Cezair-i Bahr-i Sefid";"Vilayet of the Islands of the Mediterranean Sea") was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire extant from 1867 to 1912–13, including, at its maximum extent, the Ottoman Aegean islands, Cyprus and the Dardanelles Strait.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in
Religious garb
Classical period
Decline
Gallery Folk costumes in 1873.
- Vilayet of Constantinople
- Vilayet of Adrianople
- Vilayet of the Danube
- Vilayet of Prizren; Vilayet of Scutari
- Vilayet of Janina; Vilayet of Salonica; Vilayet of Bosnia
- Vilayet of Crete
- Vilayet of the Archipelago
- Vilayet of Hudavendigar
- Vilayet of Aydın
- Vilayet of Konia
- Vilayet of Ankara
- Vilayet of Kastamonu
- Vilayet of Sivas
- Vilayet of Trebizond
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