Sanjak of Shahrizor

Kurdish: سەنجەقی شارەزوور Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق شهرزور
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.
CapitalKirkuk
Population 
• 1912
89,573
History 
• Established
1534
• Renamed "Shahrizor Sanjak"
1869-1872
• Renamed "Kirkuk Sanjak"
1891/92
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Safavid Empire
Mandatory Iraq
Today part ofIraq

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.

  1. ^ Ágoston, Gábor; Masters, Bruce Alan (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
  2. ^ a b E.J.W. Gibb memorial series, 1937, E. J. Brill, University of California
  3. ^ "Mosul vilayet in the Ottoman empire" (PDF). Orsam.com.