| Mosul Eyalet | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1535–1864 | |||||||||||
.png) The Mosul Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Mosul[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1535 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Iraq | ||||||||||
Mosul Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موصل, romanized: 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 city of Mosul was largely inhabited by Kurds. [4]
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ^ Playfair, James (1813). A System of Geography: Ancient and Modern. Peter Hill.