Ottoman Iraq

Iraq, 1533–1920. Draft, not yet reviewed

Ottoman Iraq was the Ottoman name for the region of Iraq that was under their control. Historians often divide its history into five main periods. The first began with Sultan Süleyman I's conquest in 1534 and ended with the Safavid capture of Baghdad in 1623. The fifth and final phase ran from 1869 until 1917, when British forces occupied Baghdad during the First World War.

Seat of power: Baghdad

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• In the 17th century, the Ottomans had reorganized Iraq into four eyalets (Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, and Shahrizor).
• The four eyalets were later consolidated in the 19th century into the vilayets of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra, which were treated as a single "Iraq Region".
• For much of the early modern period, Iraq was a contested frontier in the Ottoman-Persian wars, with control over Baghdad frequently shifting between the two empires.

Picture

The Kadhimiya Mosque is the mausoleum of the seventh and ninth Shia Imams, Musa al-Kazim and his grandson Muhammad al-Jawad, in the Kazimiya suburb of Baghdad.

Image: Hamed Malekpour, CC BY 4.0, file

Sources

• Ottoman Iraq (Wikipedia)
• Ottoman Iraq (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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