BASRA
OSMANLI VILAYET OF BASRA
In 1875 the three southern Sandjaks of the Vilayet of Baghdad - al-Ahsa (al-Hasa), Basra and Muntafiq (homeland of the western factions of the powerfull confederation of the same name) - were detached from the Vilayet of Baghdad to form the Valilik (name given to a small Vilayet) of Basra (1). In 1880 the Valilik was abolished and the Sandjaks returned to Baghdad, but in 1884 they were once again detached to form a Vilayet of Basra. In 1914, on the eve of WWI, the Vilayet was divided into three Sandjaks (2): - Amara (added in 1887) - Basra (3) - Muntafiq In 1914 British-Indian forces occupoed most of the Vilayet, which now became part of British Mesopotamia. (1) Southern Iraq had been conquered by the Osmanli in the early 16th century. A separate Elayet of Basra existed from the middle of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century when the region became part of Baghdad. (2) The Sandjak of al-Ahsa - which had at one time also covered Najd and Qatar - had been lost to the Wahhabi of Najd in 1913. (3) Since 1871 this Sandjak also included the Kaza of Kuwait, which was still formally listed as such in 1912, despite the fact that it was a British protectorate since 1899. __________________________________________________________________________________OSMANLI CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Vali of the Valilik 1875 - 1876 Nasr Pasha, Shaykh of the Muntafiq 1876 - 1879 Abdullah Pasha 1879 - 1880 Zabit Pasha Vali of the Vilayet 1884 Salih Pasha 1884 - 188. Ali Riza Pasha* 188. - 188. Shaban Pasha 188. - 1890 Nafiz Pasha 1890 - 1892 Hidayat Pasha 1893 Hafiz Mehmed Pasha 1894 - 1896 Hamdi Pasha 1897 Emri Pasha 1898 Hamdi Pasha (2x) 1898 Ismail Arif Pasha 1899 Mehmed Muhsin Pasha 1899 Hamdi Pasha (3x) 1900 - 1901 Mehmed Muhsin Pasha (2x) 1901 - 1904 Mustafa Nuri Pasha 1904 Fahri Pasha¨* 1904 - 1906 Mehmed Muhbil Pasha 1906 - 1907 Hüseyin Pasha 1907 - 1908 Muharrab Effendi 1908 - 1910 Süleyman Nasif Pasha 1911 - 191. Riza Pasha 1913 - 1914 Izzet Pasha
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