The economic conditions of Mosul Province during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century

The economic conditions of Mosul Province during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century

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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 itself.Mosul lived under Ottoman rule until the mid-nineteenth century in a state of chaos and turmoil in its economic and social conditions, and there was no noticeable reform in it.The Ottoman government also failed to consolidate security and resettle the tribes, and its efforts were limited to sending disciplinary campaigns to the Arab and Kurdish tribes.For example, in 1835 it sent Muhammad Ienga Bayraktar to Mosul, and he went to Tal Afar and Sinjar and was killed.A lot of superiors.

He also carried out the war against the Shammar clan, captured one Clay Target of its sheikhs and brought him to Mosul.He was also able to liquidate the Bahdinian Emirate and end the rule of Merkur in Rawanduz.However, the Ottoman government, after that, took a series of reform measures.