Mosul vilayet
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)the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
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1878–1918 | |||||||||
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The Mosul Vilayet in 1892 | |||||||||
Capital | Mosul[1] | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1897[2] | 475,415 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1878 | ||||||||
1918 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Iraq |
The Mosul VilayetBaghdad 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
Mosul Question
.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the vilayet:[5]
- Mosul Sanjak (Mosul)
- Kerkük Sanjak (Kirkuk)
- Sulaymaniyah Sanjak (Sulaymaniyah)
Demographics
According to early 20th-century British intelligence, the vilayet had a Kurdish majority and a Turkoman minority.[6]
Number | Percentage | |
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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
- Mosul Question
- Iraqi Kurdistan
- Kingdom of Kurdistan
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7268-012-1. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
- ^ Mutlu, Servet. "Late Ottoman population and its ethnic distribution" (PDF). pp. 29–31. Corrected population for Mortality Level=8.
- ^ Peters, John Punnett (1911). Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 193. . In
- ^ A. H. Keane, page 460
- ^ Musul Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
- ^ Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division (1944). Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Wellcome Library. [Oxford?] : Naval Intelligence Division. p. 307.
- ^ "Iraq". 2017-04-17. Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
External links
- Media related to Mosul Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons