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Mosul throughout History

Mosul has been a Turkish land since the Seljuks captured it in 1055. Af-
ter Sultan Selim I's Chaldiran victory in 1514, it became a part of the Ottoman

Empire and then a state in 1534, following Sultan Suleiman I's campaign in
Baghdad. This made Mosul the center of a province (vilayet) that consisted

of Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk and Mosul sanjaks. This province was surround-
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ed by Iran in the east, Diyarbakır in the north, Baghdad in the south, Dam-

ascus in the west, Aleppo and Zor Sanjak in northwest.

However, an imperialist power with sly goals was emerging in the 1800s
with dirty plans for this region, which had remained under Turkish rule for

around 1000 years and 400 years under Ottoman rule: it was the British deep
state…

Mosul was important to Britain due to the latter's imperialist exploita-

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tion policies. In the early 19 century, Britain had the highest number of
Muslim colonies, and saw Iraq and Arabia, en route to India, strategically cru-

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