I am unable to speak with certainty of the population of this city, which I have heard variously estimated from twenty-five to forty, or even fifty thousand. I should conjecture, from the best information I was able to collect, that the real number of inhabitants is about 30,000, exclusively of the Albanian soldiers who are quartered in the place. This population is composed of Greeks, Turks, Albanians, and Jews; […]
The population of Ioannina thus variously composed, and with the addition of Arabs, Moors, and Negroes, affords a curious spectacle in all the streets of the city. Somewhat such an assemblage may indeed be seen in other Turkish towns, but wanting the numerous Albanese soldiery, which forms here so striking and characteristic a feature.
