Trebizond vilayet

Infobox former subdivision | native_name = ولايت طربزونVilâyet-i Ṭrabzōn | common_name = Trebizond Vilayet | subdivision = Vilayet | nation = the Ottoman Empire | year_start = 1867 | year_end = 1922 | event_start = Vilayet Law | p1 = Trebizond Eyalet | s1 = Giresun Province | flag_s1 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s2 = Gümüşhane Province | flag_s2 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s3 = Ordu Province | flag_s3 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s4 = Rize Province | flag_s4 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s5 = Samsun Province | flag_s5 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s6 = Trabzon Province | flag_s6 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | s7 = Kutais Governorate | flag_s7 = Flag of Russia.svg | image_map = CUINET(1890) 1.036 Vilayet of Trebizond.jpg | image_map_caption = The Trebizond Vilayet in 1890 | capital = Trabizond | today = TurkeyGeorgia | stat_year1 = Muslim, 1914 The Vilayet of Trebizond (Vilâyet-i Ṭrabzōn; Vilayet de Trébizonde) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet'') in the north-eastern part of the Ottoman Empire, corresponding to the area along the eastern Black Sea coastline and the interior highland region of the Pontic Alps. 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 1908) gave the population as 1,047,700. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered. After the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the sanjak of Lazistan was established. Rize became the center of the district due to the cession of Batumi, the former centre of the sanjak, to Russia with kaza of Artvin. The salname of the year 1344h/1904-1905 mentioned several Armenian pharmacists. The Vilayet also counted with a considerable Greek population. During World War I eastern half of vilayet (Kazas of Görele, Vakfıkebir, Akçaabat, Trabzon, Of and Maçka with sanjaks of Lazistan and Gümüşhane) was occupied by Russian troops by summer 1916.