Arabic: ولاية الموصل
Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل
Vilâyet-i Musul
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1878–1918
Flag of Mosul Vilayet
Flag

The Mosul Vilayet in 1892
CapitalMosul[1]
Population 
• 1897[2]
475,415
History 
• Established
1878
1918
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Baghdad Vilayet
Mandatory Iraq
Today part ofIraq

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 Mosul Question.

Administrative divisions

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 1907

Sanjaks of the vilayet:[5]

  1. Mosul Sanjak (Mosul)
  2. Kerkük Sanjak (Kirkuk)
  3. Sulaymaniyah Sanjak (Sulaymaniyah)

Demographics

According to early 20th-century British intelligence, the vilayet had a Kurdish majority and a Turkoman minority.[6]

Enumeration by the Government of Iraq (1922-24).[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

  1. ^ a b Geographical Dictionary of the World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 1230. ISBN 978-81-7268-012-1. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  2. ^ Mutlu, Servet. "Late Ottoman population and its ethnic distribution" (PDF). pp. 29–31. Corrected population for Mortality Level=8.
  3. ^ Peters, John Punnett (1911). "Bagdad" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 193.
  4. ^ a b Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460
  5. ^ Musul Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
  6. ^ Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division (1944). Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Wellcome Library. [Oxford?] : Naval Intelligence Division. p. 307.
  7. ^ "Iraq". 2017-04-17. Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2023-07-25.

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