The economic conditions of Mosul Province during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century
Mosul entered the possession of the Ottoman Empire in the year 1515 AD, in the wake of the victory of Sultan Leggings Selim I (1512-1520) in the Battle of Galdiran in the year 1514 AD over Shah Ismail Safavi, and in the year 12 AD Mosul became a stand-alone state consisting of the Sanjak of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah in addition to the Sanjak of Mosul