Basra vilayet

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Vilayet of Basra
Ottoman Turkish
: ولايت بصره
Vilâyet-i Basra
1875–1880
1884–1918
Flag of Basra Vilayet
Flag
Coat of arms of Basra Vilayet
Coat of arms
The Basra Vilayet in 1900
The Basra Vilayet in 1900
CapitalBasra[1]
Governor 
• 1875-1877
Nasir Pasha
• 1916-1918
Khalil Pasha
History 
• Established
1884
1918
Area
1900[2]42,690 km2 (16,480 sq mi)
Population
• 1900[2]
500,000
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Baghdad Vilayet
Mandatory Iraq
Today part ofIraq
Kuwait
Qatar
Saudi Arabia

The Basra Vilayet (

romanized: Vilâyet-i Basra) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. It historically covered an area stretching from Nasiriyah and Amarah in the north to Kuwait in the south.[1] To the south and the west, there was theoretically no border at all, yet no areas beyond Qatar in the south and the Najd Sanjak in the west were later on included in the administrative system.[3]

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 16,482 square miles (42,690 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 200,000.[2] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[2]

The capital of the vilayet, Basra, was an important military centre, with a permanent garrison of 400 to 500 men, and was home to the Ottoman Navy in the Persian Gulf.[1]

History

It was a vilayet from 1875 to 1880,

Baghdad Vilayet.[4]

After 1884, the vilayet was briefly expanded down the littoral of the Gulf to incorporate Najd and al-Hasa, including Hofuf, Qatar, and Qatif, the incorporation of Najd only lasted until 1913[5] before the end of the Basra Vilayet.[6]

In 1899,

autonomous caza
of the Ottoman Empire. This would last until World War I.

Basra fell to the British on 22 November 1914, and the

Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force had occupied almost the whole of the vilayet by July 1915.[8]

Administrative divisions

A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian, Including the Vilayet of Basra and it's sanjaks
Map of subdivisions of Basra Vilayet in 1907

Sanjaks of the vilayet:[9]

  1. Amara Sanjak
  2. Basra Sanjak
  3. Diwanniyya Sanjak
  4. Muntafiq Sanjak
  5. Najd Sanjak; from 1875,[10] conquered by the Saudis in 1913.[5]
    Arabia before World War I 1914

Governors

Governors of the Basra Vilayet:[11]

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-8258-8799-5
    . Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  2. ^
    A. H. Keane
    , page 460
  3. ISBN 978-3-8258-8799-5
    . Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  4. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bagdad" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 193–194.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-64412-9
    . Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  6. ISBN 978-1-85043-570-9
    . Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  7. ISBN 978-1-136-83426-4
    . Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  8. ^ John de Vere Loder Baron Wakehurst (1923). The Truth about Mesopotamia, Palestine & Syria. G. Allen & Unwin Limited. p. 35. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  9. ISBN 0691115753
    .
  10. ^ Worldstatesmen — Saudi Arabia
  11. ^ World Statesmen — Iraq

External links

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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Basra" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 489.

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