In the past century modern East Thrace was the main component of the territory of the Adrianople Vilayet, which excluded the Constantinople Vilayet, but included West Thrace and parts of the Rhodopes and Sakar. A publication from December 21, 1912 in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (‘Our Nation Awakes’) estimated 1,006,500 inhabitants in the vilayet:[6]
Muslim Turks - 250,000
Muslim Bulgarians - 115,000
Muslim Roma people - 15,000
Orthodox Armenians - 30,000
Orthodox Greeks - 220,000
Orthodox Bulgarians - 370,000
Orthodox Albanians - 3,500
Orthodox Turks - 3,000