1078
TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES
man of the foreign consulate being present to see that the trial be according to the law ; the carrying out of the sentence, if against the foreigner, to be through his consulate. Cases between two foreign subjects of different nationalities are tried in the court of the defendant.
Grand Vizier. — Khalil Rifaat Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.
Sheik-ul-Islam.—Jemalledi'n Effendi, appointed September, 1891.
Minister of Interior. — Memduh Pasha.
Minister for Foreign Affairs. — Tewfk Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.
Minister for War. — Biza Pasha.
Minister of Marine. — Hassan Veoihsi.
Minister of Finance. — Reshad Bey.
Minister of Justice. — Ahdurrahma^i Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.
Public Works and Commerce. — Zihni Pasha {cid interim).
Public Instruction. — Zuhdi Pasha.
President of the Council of State. — So/id Pasha, appointed November 7, 1895.
Area and Population.
The total area of the Ottoman Empire (including States nominally subject) may be estimated at 1,576,700 square miles, and its total population at about 38,791,000, viz. : —
Square Miles
Population
Immediate possessions : — Europe .......
Asia
Africa . .
Bulgaria (including Eastern Roumelia) au- tonomous ......
Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Novibazar — under Austria-Hungary ....
Crete
Samos — tributary principality
Egypt (1897)
62,744 650,097 398,900
5,711,000
16,823,500
1,300,000
1,111,741
23,834,500
37,860
23,570
3,326
180
400,000
3,309,816
1,568,092
294,190
49,733
9,734,405
Total ....
464,936
14,956,236
1,576,677
38,790,736
