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Like the Ottoman regencies in Tunis and Algiers, the Regency of Tripoli was a major base for the privateering activities of the North African corsairs, who also provided revenues for Tripoli. [1] [2] A remnant of the centuries of Turkish rule is the presence of a population of Turkish origin, and those of partial Turkish origin, the Kouloughlis.
The demographics of the Ottoman Empire include population density, ethnicity, education level, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.. Lucy Mary Jane Garnett stated in the 1904 book Turkish Life in Town and Country, published in 1904, that "No country in the world, perhaps, contains a population so heterogeneous as that of Turkey."
Libya has a small population residing in a large land area. Population density is about 50 persons per km 2 (130/sq. mi.) in the two northern regions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but falls to less than one person per km 2 (2.7/sq. mi.) elsewhere. Ninety percent of the people live in less than 10% of the area, primarily along the coast.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Provinces of the Fourth Shore within the Italian Colonial Empire from 1937 to 1940: 4 [17] (Tripoli, Bengazi, Derna, Misurata) or 5 [19] (along with Southern Military Territory) or 1 [18] province [20] colonised territory (5th phase) after World War II from 1943 to 1951: 3 [21] (Cyrenaica and Tripolitania were British; Fezzan-Ghadames was ...
Tripoli Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طرابلس شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām; [2] Arabic: طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli, Lebanon. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1,629 square miles (4,220 km 2). [3]
The Tripoli Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق طرابلس الشام) was a prefecture of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Lebanon and Syria. The city of Tripoli was the Sanjak's capital. It had a population of 175,063 in 1914.
The first Ottoman general census was completed in 1831. [3] To provide general supervision and control and to compile and keep empire-wide population records, a separate Census Department (Ceride-i Nufus Nezareti) was established for the first time as part of the Ministry of the Interior. [4]