The Sanjak of Zor ( tr, Deyr-i-Zor sancağı) was a

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

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

, which was created in 1857. Some of its area was separated from the

Baghdad Vilayet ota, ولايت بغداد''Vilâyet-i Bagdad'' , conventional_long_name = Baghdad Vilayet , common_name = Baghdad Vilayet , subdivision = Vilayet , nation = Ottoman Empire , year_start = 18 ...

. Zor was sometimes mentioned as being part of the Aleppo Vilayet,''Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays''
p. 647. Kemal H. Karpat, BRILL, 2002
″The Vilayet of Halap (Aleppo) comprised Maraş, Urfa and Zor. In 1899, a fourth sanjak, that of Antioch was formed ...″ or of the Syria Vilayet.''Geographical Dictionary of the World in the early 20th Century''
Logos Press, New Delhi, 1906. The capital was

Deir Ez-Zor , population_urban = , population_density_urban_km2 = , population_density_urban_sq_mi = , population_blank1_title = Ethnicities , population_blank1 = , population_blank2_title = Religions , population_blank2 = ...

, a town on the right (i.e., south) bank of the

Euphrates The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers''). Originating in Turkey, the Eup ...

, which was also the only considerable town of the sanjak. At the beginning of the 20th century, the sanjak had an area of ,Asia
by A. H. Keane, page 460 and an estimated population of 100,000, mostly

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

nomads A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the po ...

. The capital itself was just a village before becoming the centre of the sanjak. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Ottoman forces withdrew from the area leaving a no man's land. The

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

was subsequently occupied by Iraqi nationalists representing the

Arab Kingdom of Syria The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, No ...

in Damascus, and after the

Paulet–Newcombe Agreement The Paulet–Newcombe Agreement or Paulet-Newcombe Line, was a 1923 agreement between the British and French governments regarding the position and nature of the boundary between the Mandates of Palestine and Iraq, attributed to Great Britain, ...

in 1923, it became part of the

French Mandate for Syria The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (french: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; ar, الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, al-intidāb al-fransi 'ala suriya wa-lubnān) (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate foun ...

Administrative divisions

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 , ...

s of the Sanjak:Zor Mutasarrıflığı , Tarih ve Medeniyet
/ref> # Kaza of Deyr # Kaza of Resü'l Ayn # Kaza of Asare # Kaza of Ebukemal

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zor, Sanjak of Deir ez-Zor Aleppo vilayet History of Upper Mesopotamia 1857 establishments in the Ottoman Empire