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 | | With the reforms of Midhat Pasha, Wali of Baghdad from 1869 to 1872, the name of Sharazur was given to the Sanjak of Kirkuk, corresponding to the present-day lewai of Kirkuk and Erbil, whereas the historic Sharazur remained outside in the new Sanjak of Suleymaniya. |
 | | Under the renewed, direct Ottoman rule, the Wilayet of Mosul was divided into three governorates (Turkish: Sanjak, Arabic: lewai) of Mosul, Kirkuk and Suleymaniya. |
 | | Kirkuk remained a part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of World War I when British forces captured it in May, 1918. |
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