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First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
The Mosul Vilayet[1] (Arabic: ولاية الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل, romanized: Vilâyet-i Musul) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Baghdad Vilayet 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]
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[edit] A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian, Including the Vilayet of Mosul and its Sanjaks. Map of subdivisions of Mosul Vilayet in 1907Sanjaks of the vilayet and their capitals:[5]
According to early 20th-century British intelligence, the vilayet had a Kurdish majority and a Turkoman minority.[8]
Enumeration by the Government of Iraq (1922-24).[9] 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%RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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