dear alexikoua i am wondering whether there is any informative value in citing the so called census this is not an official census it belongs to a series of documents that had propaganda value in the sense that it was createed in to help the greek delegation persuade other participants in the peace conference to yield to its demands and maximize greek territorial gains in asia minor i would also be thankful if you could please provide your source for the numbers you cite in the ottoman census table the reason i am asking is that i have karpat's book right in front of me and some of the numbers differ somewhat for example greeks of adana vilayet amount to in karpat pp not finally i would like to add a word of caution if i may as i found out reading a note in kostopoulos tasos polemos kai ethnokatharse p i can confirm this in a couple of days by comparing karpat's book pp and alexandris alexis the greek census of anatolia and thrace a contribution to ottoman historical demography in d gondicas ch issawi eds ottoman greeks in the age of nationalism princeton pp despite having the same name the boundaries of vilayets vary between ottoman censuses and that of the ecumenical patriarchate the census not including certain sanjaks like kutahya afion karahisan canik samsun eskisehir etc in vilayets for these minor but existing nonetheless discrepancies between the two to be eradicated it is advisable to adjust one of the two administrative divisions to the other's a model being provided by kostopoulos pp