Zor Sanjak

The Sanjak of Sor ( Turkish Zor sancağı or Deyr -i Zor Vilayeti ) was a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire until 1917. Was split off in 1857 as an independent Sanjak of eyalet Baghdad and was around the year 1876 part of the vilayet of Aleppo.

The capital was Deir ez -Zor on the right bank of the Euphrates, which was the only significant town of the Sanjak. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Sanjak an area of 100,000 km ², and has an estimated population of 100,000 inhabitants, mostly Arab Bedouin nomads, but also local Armenians had. The capital city was a village before their appointment to the administrative center of the Sanjak.

During the genocide of the Armenians and the Syrians were in the Sanjak of two concentration camps: the camp of Deir ez- Zor and the concentration camp Resülayn. The successor of the Sanjak is today's Syrian province of Deir ez- Zor.

Administrative divisions

The Kazas of the Sanjak Zor were: