ota, ولايت بغداد
''Vilâyet-i Bagdad'' , conventional_long_name = Baghdad Vilayet , common_name = Baghdad Vilayet , subdivision = Vilayet , nation = Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1864 , year_end = 1918 , date_start = , date_end = , event_start = Vilayet Law , event_end =

Armistice of Mudros Concluded on 30 October 1918 and taking effect at noon the next day, the Armistice of Mudros ( tr, Mondros Mütarekesi) ended hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I. It was signed by th ...

, p1 = Baghdad Eyalet , flag_p1 = Ottoman Flag.svg , s1 = Mandatory Iraq , flag_s1 = Flag of Iraq 1924.svg , image_flag = Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922).svg , flag_type = , image_coat = , image_map = Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (1900).png , image_map_caption = The Baghdad Vilayet in 1900 , capital =

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

, today =

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, stat_year1 = 1885 , stat_area1 = 141160 , stat_pop1 = 850,000 , stat_year2 = , stat_area2 = , stat_pop2 = , footnotes = , demonym = Bagdadi , flag = Flags of the Ottoman Empire The Vilayet of Baghdad ( ar, ولاية بغداد; ota, ولايت بغداد, 'Vilâyet-i Bagdad;

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: ''Bağdat Vilâyeti'') was a first-level administrative division ( vilayet) of the

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in modern-day central

. The capital was

. At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 850,000.Asia
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, page 460 The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

Demographics

The last Ottoman Census of 1917 stated that in Baghdad Sanjak out of the 202,000 population, 88,000 were Jews,12,000 Christian, 8,000 Kurds, 800 Persian and rest Arab and other Muslims.

History

In 1869,

Midhat Pasha Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha ( ota , احمد شفيق مدحت پاشا, 18 October 1822 – 26 April 1883) was an Ottoman democrat, kingmaker and one of the leading statesmen during the late Tanzimat period. He is most famous for leading the O ...

was inaugurated as governor of Baghdad. He extended Ottoman jurisdiction as far as the town of al-Bida, after he had established his authority in Nejd. In January 1872, Qatar was designated as a

kaza A kaza (, , , plural: , , ; ota, قضا, script=Arab, (; meaning 'borough') * bg, околия (; meaning 'district'); also Кааза * el, υποδιοίκησις () or (, which means 'borough' or 'municipality'); also () * lad, kaza , ...

under the Sanjak of Nejd. However, relations with the Ottoman authorities became hostile in both al-Bida and Nejd, leading eventually to the

Battle of Al Wajbah The Battle of Al Wajbah was an armed conflict that took place in March 1893 in Qatar, a province of the Ottoman Empire's Najd sanjak at that time. The conflict was initiated after Ottoman officials imprisoned 16 Qatari tribal leaders and ordered ...

, at which Ottomans were defeated.

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

or Districts of the vilayet:Bagdad Vilayeti , Tarih ve Medeniyet
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Governors

Notable governors of the Vilayet:
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Hafiz Ahmed Midhat Shefik Pasha Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha ( ota , احمد شفيق مدحت پاشا, 18 October 1822 – 26 April 1883) was an Ottoman democrat, kingmaker and one of the leading statesmen during the late Tanzimat period. He is most famous for leading the Ot ...

(March 1869 - November 1871) * Giritli Sırrı Pasha

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