Mosul Eyalet
| Mûsil Eyalet-i | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1517–1864 | |||||||||
.png) Mosul Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Mosul[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1517 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Iraq | ||||||||
Mosul Eyalet was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 7,832 square miles (20,280 km2).[2] The eyalet was largely inhabited by Kurds.[3]
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 remainded a a frontier garrison city until the 1534 capture of Baghdad.[4] Mosul then became one of three Ottoman administrative territorial units of ‘Irāk. [5]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Mosul Eyalet in the 17th century:[6]
- Sanjak of Bajwanli
- Sanjak of Tekrit
- Sanjak of Eski Mosul Nineveh
- Sanjak of Hard
See also
References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ British Relations with Iraq BBC History
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 394, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
- ^ 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.
- ^ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 97, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
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