Mosul Vilayet


The Mosul Vilayet was a first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Baghdad Vilayet in 1878.
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of, while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 gave the population as 300,280. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.
The city of Mosul and the area south to the Little Zab was allocated to France in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement of the First World War, and later transferred to Mandatory Iraq following the 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George Agreement wherein France surrendered its rights to the area.

Administrative divisions

of the vilayet:
  1. Mosul Sanjak
  2. Kerkük Sanjak
  3. Sulaymaniyah Sanjak