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Prior to 16th century
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Ancient era and early Middle Ages
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9th century to 1535
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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
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Mosul §
Ottomans: 1517 to 1918
- 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
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1918 to 2003
- 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.
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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
- 2003 - March–May: 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces ; Mosul International Airport occupied.
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2004
- 24 June: 2004 Mosul bombings .
- November: Battle of Mosul (2004) .
- 2007 - 23 April: April 2007 Mosul massacre .
- 2008 - Ninawa campaign .
- 2013 - April: Anti-government protest. [14]
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2014
- 4–10 June: Mosul taken by forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [15]
- June: Mass executions in ISIL occupied Mosul begin.
- 16–19 August: Battle for Mosul Dam fought near city.
- 2015 - January: Mosul offensive (2015) .
- 2016 - October: Battle of Mosul (2016–17) begins. [15]
- 2017
See also
- History of Mosul [ ar ]
- List of rulers of Mosul
- Nineveh , ancient Assyrian city located across river from present-day Mosul
- Timelines of other cities in Iraq: Baghdad , Basra
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bosworth 2007 .
- ↑ Griffin 1996 .
- 1 2 3 4 "Mosul" . ArchNet . Retrieved 23 June 2017 .
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- 1 2 3 4 Shields 2000 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 Agoston 2009 .
- ↑ Khoury 1997 .
- ↑ "Mesopotamia" . Statesman's Year-Book . London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl : 2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust .
- ↑ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2001 . United Nations Statistics Division .
- ↑ Iraq police and gunmen die in Mosul clashes , BBC News, 25 April 2013
- 1 2 "Iraq Profile: Timeline" . BBC News. 16 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 June 2017 .
- ↑ "Mosul's landmark Great Mosque of al-Nuri to be rebuilt" , BBC News , 24 April 2018
- This article incorporates information from the Arabic Wikipedia .
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.
- William Francis Ainsworth (1888). "First Visit to Mosul and Ninevah" . Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition . London.
- 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
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Th. Lefebvre (1927).
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- 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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