| Sanjak of Zor Deyr-i-Zor sancağı | |||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1857–1917 | |||||||||
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.png) Zor Sanjak in 1900 | |||||||||
| Capital | Deir Ez-Zor | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1900s[1] | 100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1900s[1] | 100,000 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1857 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1917 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Syria Turkey | ||||||||
TheSanjak of Zor[2] (Turkish:Deyr-i-Zor sancağı) was asanjak of theOttoman Empire, which was created in 1857. Some of its area was separated from theBaghdad Vilayet.[2] Zor was sometimes mentioned as being part of theAleppo Vilayet,[3][4] or of theSyria Vilayet.[5]
The capital wasDeir ez-Zor, a town on the right (i.e., south) bank of theEuphrates, which was also the only considerable town of the sanjak.[1] At the beginning of the 20th century, the sanjak had an area of 38,600 square miles (100,000 km2),[6] and an estimated population of 100,000, mostlyArabnomads.[1] The capital itself was just a village before becoming the centre of the sanjak.[1]
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Ottoman forces withdrew from the area leaving ano man's land. Theregion was subsequentlyoccupied by Iraqi nationalists representing theArab Kingdom of Syria inDamascus, and after thePaulet–Newcombe Agreement in 1923, it became part of theFrench Mandate for Syria.
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