Baghdad Vilayet

ولايت بغداد‎
Vilâyet-i Bagdad,
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
←
 1864–1918 →
Baghdad Vilayet in 1900
Capital Baghdad
History
 - Established 1864
 - Armistice of Mudros 1918
Area
 - 1885[1] 141,160 km2 (54,502 sq mi)
Population
 - 1885[1] 850,000 
     Density 6 /km2  (15.6 /sq mi)
Today part of  Iraq

The Vilayet of Baghdad (Ottoman language: ولايت بغداد‎, Vilâyet-i Bagdad, Modern Turkish: Bağdat Vilâyeti, Arabic:ولاية بغداد) was a vilayet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was Baghdad.

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 54,503 square miles (141,160 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 850,000.[1] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[1]

Contents

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[2]

  1. Sanjak of Baghdad
  2. Sanjak of Divaniye
  3. Sanjak of Kerbela (Mesed-i-Hüseyin)

Notable governors

References

  1. ^ a b c Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460
  2. ^ Bagdad Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet

External links

 Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Bagdad, Turkey (Vilayet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Bagdad,_Turkey_%28Vilayet%29. 
 
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