First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
Arabic: ولاية الموصل Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل Vilâyet-i Musul
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1878–1918
Flag
The Mosul Vilayet in 1892
Capital
Mosul[1]
Population
• 1897[2]
475,415
History
• Established
1878
• Armistice of Mudros
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Baghdad Vilayet
Mandatory Iraq
Today part of
Iraq
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 the Mosul Question.
^ abGeographical Dictionary of the World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 1230. 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). "Bagdad" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 193.
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