Mosul Eyalet
Arabic: إيالة الموصل
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موصل
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1535–1864

The Mosul Eyalet in 1609
CapitalMosul[1]
History 
• Established
1535
• Disestablished
1864
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Diyarbekir Eyalet
Baghdad Vilayet
Mosul Vilayet
Today part ofIraq

Mosul Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موصل, romanized: Eyālet-i Mūṣul)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 7,832 square miles (20,280 km2).[3] The eyalet was largely inhabited by Kurds.[4] [5]

History

Sultan Selim I defeated the army of Shah Ismail at the Battle of Çaldiran, but it wasn't until 1517 that Ottoman armies gained control of Mosul, which remained a frontier garrison city until the 1534 capture of Baghdad.[6] The eyalet was established in 1535.[7] Mosul then became one of three Ottoman administrative territorial units of ‘Irāk.[8] In the 1840s, the Sanjak of Cizre, which before was a part of the Emirate of Bohtan in the Diyarbekir Eyalet, was added to the Mosul Eyalet, which led to an unsuccessful Kurdish revolt against the Ottoman Empire, led by Bedir Khan Beg.[9]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of Mosul Eyalet in the 17th century:[10]

  1. Sanjak of Bajwanli
  2. Sanjak of Tekrit
  3. Sanjak of Eski Mosul (Nineveh)
  4. Sanjak of Harú

Added in the 1840s

  1. Sanjak of Cizre[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Macgregor, John (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial legislation, customs tariffs, of all nations. Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  2. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  4. ^ "British Relations with Iraq". BBC History.
  5. ^ Playfair, James (1813). A System of Geography: Ancient and Modern. Peter Hill.
  6. ^ Agoston, Gabor; Masters, Bruce Alan (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  7. ^ Özoğlu, Hakan (2004). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State. SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 57. the new eyalets, formed partly or entirely from the Kurdish territories, were as follows: Dulkadir (1522), Erzurum (1533), Mosul (1535), Baghdad (1535), Van (1548)...
  8. ^ Nagendra Kr Singh (1 September 2002). International encyclopaedia of Islamic dynasties. Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. pp. 15–18. ISBN 978-81-261-0403-1. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  9. ^ a b Özoğlu, Hakan (2004). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.
  10. ^ Evliya Çelebi; Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1834). Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1. Oriental Translation Fund. p. 97. Retrieved 2013-07-04.

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