1881–82 census of the Ottoman Empire
1881–82 census of the Ottoman Empire was a multi-year census effort that the preparations for the forms and registration committees finished in 1884-85 which from this date a continuous flow of information collected with yearly reports until final record issued in 1893. The first official census took 10 years to finish. Grand Vizier Cevat Pasha submitted the census records in a bound manuscript to the sultan, Abdulhamid II.
