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Deir ez-Zor Vilayet

Zor Sanjak
Deyr-i-Zor sancağı
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire

1857–1917
Location of Zor Sanjak
Zor Sanjak in 1900
Capital Deir Ez-Zor
History
 •  Established 1857
 •  Disestablished 1917
Area
 •  1900s 100,000 km2(38,610 sq mi)
Population
 •  1900s 100,000 
Density 1 /km2  (2.6 /sq mi)
Today part of  Syria,  Turkey

The Sanjak of Zor (Turkish: Deyr-i-Zor sancağı) was a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire. Some of its area was separated from the Baghdad Vilayet, when it was created in 1857. Zor was sometimes mentioned as being part of the Aleppo Vilayet, or of the Syria Vilayet.

The capital was Deir Ez-Zor, a town on the right bank of the Euphrates, which was also the only considerable town of the sanjak. At the beginning of the 20th century, the sanjak had an area of 38,600 square miles (100,000 km2), and an estimated population of 100,000, mostly Arab nomads. The capital itself was just a village before becoming the centre of the sanjak.

Kazas of the Sanjak:


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