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name = Mosul Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map Mosul.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 36.44 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 36.25 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 43.01 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 43.28
A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian, Including the Vilayet of Mosul and its Sanjaks. Map of subdivisions of Mosul Vilayet in 1907. Sanjaks of the vilayet and their capitals: [5] Sanjak of Mosul, Mosul; Sanjak of Shahrizor [6] (later renamed Sanjak of Kirkuk), [7]: 190 Kirkuk
British and Turkish officials met in 1924 but were unable to determine a mutually satisfactory border, and the matter was referred to the League of Nations. [3] In October 1925 the League proposed a border (the ‘Brussels line’) that was essentially the same as that of the northern limits of the old Mosul Vilayet.
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Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
Tigris river flows through Mosul, near the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, which is a major settlement and hosts farmland in Upper Mesopotamia. The name al-Jazira has been used since the 7th century AD by Islamic sources to refer to the northern section of Mesopotamia, [citation needed] while the Lower Mesopotamia, also known as Sawād, is the southern part of Mesopotamia.
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