When did Mosul become Ottoman?

Chronology

1. 1517
   Became Ottoman

   In April 1517 Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha, governor of Diyarbekir, took the city from its Safavid governor.

   Sultan: Selim I
2. 1743
   Note

   Nader Shah besieged the city; governor Hüseyin Celil Pasha defended it.

   Sultan: Mahmud I
3. 1918
   Left Ottoman rule

   At Mudros the city was in Turkish hands; the British entered it on 8 (or 10) November 1918 in breach of the armistice.

   Sultan: Mehmed VI
4. 1926
   Note

   Under the Treaty of Ankara of 5 June 1926 Mosul remained within Iraq.

How the total is counted: years of actual Ottoman rule are added up. Temporary occupations shorter than a year (that were reversed) are not subtracted; they appear as notes in the chronology.

In the atlas

On the atlas map the city lies in the region “Mosul–Shahrizor”. Map colours work at region level, so the city's own dates may differ from the region's by a few years.

Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, “MUSUL” (Turkish); text written for the atlas.