1885- Western vilayets

European Turkey or Turkey in Europe (Turkish: Avrupa Türkiyesi or Avrupa-i Osmanî) was the term used for the European territories of the Ottoman Empire, which was also alternatively called "Turkey" or the "Turkish Empire" by its contemporaries.

European Turkey comprised the area between the Turkish Straits and the Sea of Marmara in the southeast to the Ottoman border in the northwest which extended to the eastern provinces of present-day Austria (until the outskirts of Vienna) and the western provinces of present-day Slovakia (such as Považie and its surrounding region) in the second half of the 17th century; the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the north; and the Russian Empire to the northeast. The Ottoman territories in Europe included most of the Kingdom of Hungary (between 1526 and 1699) and almost all of the Balkan peninsula (between the late 14th and the early 20th centuries) and the Black Sea coastlines of present-day Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia. Other coastlines of European Turkey included the Ottoman territories bordering the Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian and Adriatic seas.

[edit] See also

• Rumelia

[edit] References and notes

• Historic map by John Bartholomew & Co.: Changes in Turkey in Europe, 1856 to 1878
• Map of Turkey in Europe and Hungary in the 17th century, engraved by J. Russell, published in Barclay's Universal Dictionary, 1823
• Map of Turkey in Europe and Hungary in the 17th century, engraved by J. Barlow, published by Brightly & Kinnersley in the Rev. E. Blomfield's A Complete and Universal Dictionary, 1812
• Map of Turkey in Europe and Hungary, drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall, published in the General Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography, 1827
• Map of Turkey in Europe by J. Rapkin, published by J & F Tallis, London, Edinburgh & Dublin, c.1850
• Map of Turkey in Europe by Sidney Hall, printed in colours by Fr. Schenck, Edinburgh and published by A & C Black, c.1856
• Map of Turkey in Europe by J. Wyld, engraved by N.R. Hewitt and published in Edinburgh by John Thompson & Co., c.1823
• Map of Turkey in Europe engraved by A. Findlay and published by Thomas Kelly in A New and Complete System of Universal Geography, 1818
• Map of Turkey in Europe by John Archer, published in The National Encyclopedia Atlas, 1868
• Map of Turkey in Europe by Keith Johnston. Published in Keith Johnston's The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1861