Shahrizor Eyalet

Arabic: إيالة شهرزور
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شهر زور
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1554–1862

The Sharazor Eyalet in 1609
CapitalKirkuk;[1]
Sulaymaniyya (after 1784)[2]
History 
• Established
1554
• Disestablished
1862
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Safavid Empire
Baghdad Eyalet
Today part ofIraq
Iran

Shahrizor[3] Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة شهرزور, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شهر زور, romanizedEyālet-i Šehr-i Zōr)[4] was a semi-independent eyalet of the Ottoman Empire covering the area of present-day Iraqi Kurdistan.[3]

  1. ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial legislation, customs tariffs, of all nations. Including all British commercial treaties with foreign states. Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
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  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference otm-enc-2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.