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

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

of the

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, which was created in 1857. Some of its area was separated from the Baghdad Vilayet. 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, a town on the right (i.e., south) bank of the

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, 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

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, page 460 and an estimated population of 100,000, mostly

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. 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

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. The

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was subsequently occupied by Iraqi nationalists representing the

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Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

, and after the Paulet–Newcombe Agreement in 1923, it became part of the French Mandate for Syria.

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