Mosul Vilayet

The vilayet of Mosul was a vilayet, a province of the Ottoman Empire in what is now Kurdistan autonomous region in northern Iraq.

The population of the province consisted mostly of Kurds, besides also from Aramaic, Turkomans and Arabs.

The vilayet of Mosul was built as part of a Tanzimat constitutional reform in 1878. It consisted of the Sanjak of Mosul, Kirkuk and as- Sulaymaniyah. The Sanjak of Mosul, had the court district ( kaza ) Agra, az- Zibar, Dohuk, Zahko, Sinjar and al - Amadiyya. The Sanjak of Kirkuk consisted of the Kazas Rawanduz, Arbil, Kuy Sanjak, Salahiyya and Raniyya. The Sanjak as- Sulaymaniyya had the Kazas Gülanber, Bazyan, Şehribâzâr and Ma'mûretülhamîd.

The province was relatively well integrated into the Ottoman state and, therefore, between the new Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom a point of the field belonging after 1920, when the province was occupied after the First World War by the United Kingdom and was incorporated into the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.