Esme

Esme is a town and area of Usak Province in the internal Aegean Region of Turkey. Aside from the focal town of Esme, the locale checks three townships with possess district, in particular Yelegen, Ahmetler and Gullu. The chief financial exercises incorporate tobacco cultivating, stockbreeding, kilim weaving and exchanging.

From 1867 to 1922, Esme was a piece of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. The Vilayet of Aidin or Aydin, also known as Vilayet of Smyrna or Izmir after its regulatory focus, was a first-level managerial division of the Ottoman Empire in the south-west of Asia Minor, including the old districts of Lydia, Ionia, Caria and western Lycia.It was portrayed by the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica as the "most extravagant and most gainful territory of Asiatic Turkey".

Toward the start of the 20th century it purportedly had a territory of 17,370 square miles, while the primer aftereffects of the main Ottoman statistics of 1885 gave the populace as 1,390,783. The expressed precision of the populace figures ranges from "rough" to "only theoretical" contingent upon the district from which they were gathered. As of 1920, the vilayet had an "especially vast" Christian populace.