Manastir vilayet

ولايت مناستر
*Vilâyet-i Manastır*
ولايت مناستر; Vilâyet-i Manastır
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1874–1877; 1879–1912
	Flag
	; The Manastir Vilayet in 1867–1912
Capital	Manastir
Population
• 1911	1,069,789
History
• Established	1874
• Disestablished	1912
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Rumelia Eyalet
Independent Albania
Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Serbia
Today part of	Albania; North Macedonia; Greece

The Vilayet of Manastir^[3] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت مناستر, romanized: Vilâyet-i Manastır)^[4] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879.^[5] The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Serbia,^[5] with some parts later becoming part of the newly established Principality of Albania.

^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Monastir" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Teaching Modern Southeast European History Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Alternative Educational Materials, p. 26
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Macedonia" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Manastır ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Monastir"), Manastır vilâyet matbaası, Manastır [Macedonia], 1292 [1875]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
^ ^a ^b Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German). Vol. 13. Reichert. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9783920153568.