Timeline of Mosul

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mosul, Iraq.

Prior to 16th century

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Prehistory
  • Ubaid period
  • Hassuna culture
  • Halaf culture
  • Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period
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  • Jemdet Nasr Period
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  • 570 CE - Mar Ishaya (monastery) founded across river from Ninevah; surrounding settlement later develops.[1]
  • 641 CE - Arab forces of Utba bin Farqad take fortress in settlement.[1]
  • 847 CE - 24 November: Earthquake.
  • 874/875 CE - Taghlibi Khidr bin Ahmad becomes governor.[1]
  • 880 CE - Ishaq ibn Kundaj becomes governor.[1]
  • 892 - Mosul besieged by forces of Harun bin Sulayman and Banu Shayban.[1]
  • 907 - Hamdanids in power.[1]
  • 990s - Syrian Uqaylids in power.[2]
  • 1095/1096 - Seljuqs in power.[1]
  • 1127/1128 - Seljuqs ousted by Imad ad-Din Zengi.[1]
  • 1146 - Saif ad-Din Ghazi I in power.
  • 1170 - Great Mosque of al-Nuri construction begins.[3]
  • 1182 - Mosul besieged by forces of Saladin during rule of Izz ad-Din Mas'ud.[1]
  • 1185 - Mosul again besieged by forces of Saladin.[1]
  • 1224 - Mosul taken by forces of Badr al-Din Lu'lu'.[3]
  • 1239 - Mashhad Imam Yahya ibn al-Qasim (mausoleum) built near city.[3]
  • 1248 - Imam Awn al-Din shrine built.[4]
  • 1258 - Mosul sacked by forces of Hulagu Khan.[5]
  • 1262 - July: Mosul taken by Mongol forces.[6]

16th–19th centuries

  • 1516 - Ottomans in power.[6]
  • 1535 - Ottoman administrative Mosul Eyalet created.
  • 1623 - Mosul taken by Persian forces (approximate date).[7]
  • 1625 - Persians ousted; Ottomans in power again.[7]
  • 1719 - Sari Mustafa becomes governor.[8]
  • 1730 - Hussein Jalili appointed governor.
  • 1733 - Mosul besieged by forces of Nadir Khan.[7]
  • 1743 - Siege of Mosul (1743) by Persian forces.[7]
  • 1745 - Battle of Mosul (1745) fought in vicinity of city.
  • 1826 - Unrest; governor Yahya al-Jalili ousted.[7]
  • 1839 - Ottoman administrative reform begins per Edict of Gülhane.[6]
  • 1854 - "Rebellion" against administrative reform.[6]

20th century

  • 1920 - Population: 703,378 in vilayet (province).[9]
  • 1926 - Mosul becomes part of the Kingdom of Iraq per League of Nations ruling.
  • 1947 - Population: 133,625 in city; 595,190 in province.[10]
  • 1957 - Mosul football club formed.
  • 1960 - Ash-Shabibah newspaper published.
  • 1965 - Population: 264,146.[11]
  • 1967 - University of Mosul founded.
  • 1969
    • Mosul Spring Festival [ar] begins.
    • National Insurance Company built.[3]
  • 1970 - Population: 310,313 (estimate).[12]
  • 1986 - Mosul Dam begins operating near city.
  • 1987 - Population: 664,221.[13]

21st century

Images

  • Spring Festival, est. 1969
    Spring Festival, est. 1969

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bosworth 2007.
  2. ^ Griffin 1996.
  3. ^ a b c d "Mosul". ArchNet. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  4. ^ Saeed Al-Dewachi. "Mosul". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 23 June 2017
  5. ^ Dougherty 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d Shields 2000.
  7. ^ a b c d e Agoston 2009.
  8. ^ Khoury 1997.
  9. ^ "Mesopotamia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
  10. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  11. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2001. United Nations Statistics Division.
  14. ^ Iraq police and gunmen die in Mosul clashes, BBC News, 25 April 2013
  15. ^ a b "Iraq Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  16. ^ "Mosul's landmark Great Mosque of al-Nuri to be rebuilt", BBC News, 24 April 2018

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823). "Mosul". A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.). New Haven: S. Converse.
  • "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829.
  • Josiah Conder (1834). "Mosul". Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern. London: T. Tegg.
  • William Francis Ainsworth (1842). "City of Mosul". Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia. London: John W. Parker. hdl:2027/mdp.39015011385054.
  • Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Mosul". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • William Francis Ainsworth (1888). "First Visit to Mosul and Ninevah". Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Charles Wilson, ed. (1895). "Mosul". Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. London: John Murray. ISBN 9780524062142. OCLC 8979039.

Published in 20th century

  • Friedrich Sarre; Ernst Herzfeld. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin. pp. 203–305. OCLC 491984252. 1911–1920
  • "Mosul". Palestine and Syria (5th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1912.
  • E. Honigmann (1993) [1927]. "Mosul". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. pp. 609–611. via Google Books
  • Th. Lefebvre (1927). "Le Vilayet de Mossoul". Annales de Géographie (in French). 36 – via Persée. Free access icon
  • Percy Kemp (1983). "Power and Knowledge in Jalili Mosul". Middle Eastern Studies. 19 (2): 201–212. doi:10.1080/00263208308700543. ISSN 0026-3206.
  • Percy Kemp (1983). "History and Historiography in Jalili Mosul". Middle Eastern Studies. 19 (3): 345–376. doi:10.1080/00263208308700555.
  • "Iraq: Mosul", Middle East, Australia: Lonely Planet, 1994, p. 309+, OL 16516298W
  • Jacqueline Griffin (1996). "Mosul". In Trudy Ring (ed.). Middle East and Africa. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. pp. 522+. ISBN 9781884964039.
  • Dina Rizk Khoury (1997). State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521894301.
  • Sarah D. Shields (2000). Mosul before Iraq: Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-4487-0.

Published in 21st century

  • Peter Sluglett (2002), "Mosul", in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 0684806177
  • Reeva S. Simon (2004), "Mosul", in Philip Mattar (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, NY: Macmillan Reference USA, ISBN 0028657691
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mosul". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 412+. ISBN 978-9004153882.
  • Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008). "Mosul". Cities of the Middle East and North Africa. Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1576079195.
  • Gabor Agoston; Bruce Alan Masters, eds. (2009). "Mosul". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. pp. 394–395. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
  • "Mosul". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.
  • Beth K. Dougherty; Edmund A. Ghareeb (2013). "Mawsil". Historical Dictionary of Iraq (2nd ed.). Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3.

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