Vilayet Mosul
The Vilayet Mosul was a Vilayet , a province of the Ottoman Empire in what is now the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq .
The population of the province consisted mostly of Kurds , in addition to Arameans , Turkomans and Arabs .
The Vilâyet Mosul was built as part of a Tanzimat constitutional reform in 1878. It consisted of the sanjaks Mosul, Kirkuk and as-Sulaimaniyya. These were divided into the following court districts ( kaza ):
- Sandzak Mosul: Agra , az-Zibar, Dohuk , Zahko , Sinjar and al-Amadiyya
- Sanjak al-Sulaymaniyya: Gülanber, Bazyan, Şehribâzâr and Ma'mûretülhamîd
The province was comparatively well integrated into the Ottoman state and therefore a point of contention between the new Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom after 1920, when the province was occupied by Great Britain after the First World War and Mesopotamia was incorporated into the British mandate .