Richard Bayly Winder, Near Eastern round table, 1967-68, New York, Near East Center and the Center for International Studies, New York University, 1969. URL consultato il 29 settembre 2011.
«In June 1867, thirteen new vilayets were formed: Bursa, Dardanelles, ... Ankara, Diyarbekir (Kurdistan), Sivas , Kastamonu, Thessaloniki (Salanik) , Konya, and Yanina (Epirus and Thessaly), Prizren, and Ishkodra (Scutari of Albania).»