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]
History
Sultan
Selim I defeated the army of
Shah Ismail at the
Battle of Çaldiran, but it wasn't until 1517 that Ottoman armies gained control of Mosul, which remained a frontier garrison city until the
1534 capture of Baghdad.[5] The eyalet was established in 1535.[6] Mosul then became one of three Ottoman
administrative territorial units of ‘Irāk.[7] In the 1840s, the Sanjak of
Cizre, which before was a part of the Emirate of
Bohtan in the
Diyarbekir Eyalet, was added to the Mosul Eyalet, which led to an unsuccessful Kurdish revolt against the Ottoman Empire, led by
Bedir Khan Beg.[8]
^Özoğlu, Hakan (2004). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State. SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 57. the new eyalets, formed partly or entirely from the Kurdish territories, were as follows: Dulkadir (1522), Erzurum (1533), Mosul (1535), Baghdad (1535), Van (1548)...