Mosul Eyalet

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, romanizedEyālet-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 city of Mosul was largely inhabited by Kurds. [4]

  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. ^ Playfair, James (1813). A System of Geography: Ancient and Modern. Peter Hill.

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