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Vilâyet-i Musul
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1878–1918

Mosul Vilayet in 1892
CapitalMosul[1]
Population 
• 1897[2]
475,415
History 
• Established
1878
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Baghdad Vilayet
British Mandate of Mesopotamia
Kingdom of Kurdistan
Today part of Iraq

The Vilayet of Mosul[1] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل, Vilâyet-i Musul) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Vilayet of Baghdad in 1878.[3]

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 29,220 square miles (75,700 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 300,280.[4] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[4]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the vilayet:[5]

  1. Mosul Sanjak (Mosul)
  2. Kerkük Sanjak (Kirkuk, Sehr-i-Zor)
  3. Sulaymaniyah Sanjak (Sulaymaniyah)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Geographical Dictionary of the World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 1230. ISBN 978-81-7268-012-1. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  2. ^ Mutlu, Servet. "Late Ottoman population and its ethnic distribution" (PDF). pp. 29–31. Corrected population for Mortality Level=8.
  3. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bagdad, Turkey (Vilayet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ a b Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460
  5. ^ Musul Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet