Mosul Eyalet
Appearance
Eyālet-i Mūṣul | |||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
1535–1864 | |||||||||
![]() Mosul Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
Capital | Mosul[1] | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1535 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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Today part of | ![]() |
Mosul Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موصل; 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]
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.[5] The eyalet was established in 1535.[6] Mosul then became one of three Ottoman administrative territorial units of ‘Irāk.[7]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Mosul Eyalet in the 17th century:[8]
- Sanjak of Bajwanli
- Sanjak of Tekrit
- Sanjak of Eski Mosul Nineveh
- Sanjak of Hard
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ British Relations with Iraq BBC History
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hakan Özoğlu (2005). Osmanlı devleti ve Kürt milliyetçiliği. Kitap Yayinevi Ltd. p. 77. ISBN 978-975-6051-02-3. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
I. Süleyman 1566 yılında öldüğünde kısmen ya da tamamen Kürt bölgelerinden oluşturulan yeni eyaletler şunlardı: Dulkadir (1522), Erzurum (1533), Musul (1535), Bağdat (1535), Van (1548) ve Şehrizor (1554...
- ^ 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