Kurdish: سەنجەقی شارەزوور Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق شهرزور | |||||||||
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Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
1534–1918 | |||||||||
A map of the Mosul vilayet in 1892, the Shahrizor Sanjak (here Chehrizor) is shown in yellow, between the two other sanjaks. | |||||||||
Capital | Kirkuk | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1912 | 89,573 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1534 | ||||||||
• Renamed "Shahrizor Sanjak" | 1869-1872 | ||||||||
• Renamed "Kirkuk Sanjak" | 1891/92 | ||||||||
1918 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Iraq |
The Sanjak of Shahrizor (Kurdish: سەنجەقی شارەزوور, Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق شهرزور), previously the Sanjak of Baban,[1] later briefly renamed to the Sanjak of Kirkuk (Kurdish: سەنجەقی کەرکووک) (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق كركوك), was a second-level administrative division (Sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, founded in 1534. The name Shahrizor comes from the region of the same name, which likely means "kingly forest".[2] The capital and largest city of the sanjak was Kirkuk. The sanjak was made up of 1,712 Villages across 6 Kazas and 17 Nahiyahs. The Shahrizor Sanjak was initially a sanjak of the Eyalet of Shahrizor,[2] though later it was part of the Mosul vilayet, lying between the Mosul and Sulaymaniyah Sanjak.[3]: 173 It was dissolved with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918.