Mosul vilayet
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Former Subdivision The Mosul Vilayet[1] (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Baghdad Vilayet in 1878.[2]
At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of Script error: No such module "convert"., while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 300,280.[3] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[3]
The city of Mosul and the area south to the Little Zab was allocated to France in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement of the First World War, and later transferred to Mandatory Iraq following the Mosul Question.
Administrative divisions
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Sanjaks of the vilayet and their capitals:[4]
- Sanjak of Mosul, Mosul
- Sanjak of Shahrizor[5] (later renamed Sanjak of Kirkuk),[6]Template:Rp Kirkuk
- Sanjak of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah
Demographics
According to early 20th-century British intelligence, the vilayet had a Kurdish majority and a Turkoman minority.[7]
| Number | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|
| Kurds | 520,007 | 64.9% |
| Arabs | 166,914 | 20.8% |
| Christians | 61,336 | 7.7% |
| Turks | 38,652 | 4.8% |
| Yezidis | 26,257 | 3.3% |
| Jews | 11,897 | 1.5% |
| Total | 801,000 | 100% |
See also
Notes
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- ↑ Musul Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
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External links
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