vilayet

Examples

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• In 1879, the Ottoman government in Istanbul created the Mosul vilayet, which incorporated most of what is now northern Iraq.

  Academic text (2007)

• In 1879, it became a sanjak (district) within the vilayet of Mosul.

  Academic text (2007)

• On September 30, 1924, the League of Nations set up a commission to decide on the future of the Mosul vilayet.

  Academic text (2007)

• In addition, the British already had decided to attach the largely Kurdish vilayet of Mosul to Iraq because of its vast oil resources.

  Academic text (2004)

• Further changes occurred in the region in 1918 when the British army occupied the Mosul vilayet and created a new Arbil governorate.

  Academic text (2007)

• A League of Nations Committee that visited the Mosul vilayet in 1925 estimated that the Kurds comprised 63 percent of Kirkuk's population, the Turkomans 19 percent, and the Arabs 18 percent.

  Academic text (2007)

• To further their goals, the British, who held Iraq as a mandate from the League of Nations, invited a local Kurdish leader, Sheikh Mahmud Barzinji of Sulaymaniya, to act as their governor in the Kurdish vilayet of Mosul.

  Academic text (2004)

• The League of Nations established the boundaries of the Mosul vilayet after World War I.

• In the late 19th century, the Mosul vilayet was an important administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

• The economy of the Mosul vilayet was heavily influenced by its agricultural production and oil resources.

Synonyms

P

province

vsvilayet

209 3.0

A large area of a country with its own local government

applies specifically to the former Ottoman Empire

G

governorate

vsvilayet

• Formal

2 8.2

A part of a country like a state or province that a local leader runs

does not focus on being led by a governor

Surface Forms

Etymology