Baghdad Province, Ottoman Empire
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The Vilayet of Baghdad (Ottoman language
: , 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 54503 square miles (141,162.1 km²), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 850,000. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.
Ottoman Turkish language
The Ottoman Turkish language or Ottoman language is the variety of the Turkish language that was used for administrative and literary purposes in the Ottoman Empire. It borrows extensively from Arabic and Persian, and was written in a variant of the Perso-Arabic script...
: , Vilâyet-i Bagdad, Modern Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
: Bağdat Vilâyeti, Arabic:ولاية بغداد) was a vilayet (province
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
) of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
. The capital was Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
.
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 54503 square miles (141,162.1 km²), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 850,000. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the Vilayet:- Sanjak of BaghdadBaghdadBaghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
- Sanjak of Divaniye
- Sanjak of Kerbela (Mesed-i-Hüseyin)