Aleppo Sanjak

{{Short description|Prefecture of the Ottoman Empire}}

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{{Infobox Former Subdivision

|native_name = سنجق حلب

|conventional_long_name = Aleppo Sanjak
Haleb Sancağı

|common_name = Aleppo Sanjak

|subdivision = sanjak

|nation = the Ottoman Empire
under Aleppo Eyalet (1549–1865)
under Aleppo Vilayet (1865–1918)

|year_start = 1549

|event_end = Armistice of Mudros

|year_end = 1918

|date_end =

|image_coat = Osmanli-nisani.svg

|image_map = Sanjak of Aleppo Ottoman Empire, 1914.png

|image_map_caption = Aleppo Sanjak in 1914

|p1 =

|flag_p1 =

|border_p1 = border

|image_p1 = Image:Sin escudo.svg

|s1 = Occupied Enemy Territory Administration

|flag_s2 =

|border_s2 = no

|image_s2 =

|capital = Aleppo

|today = Syria
Turkey

|footnotes =

}}

The Aleppo Sanjak ({{langx|ar|سنجق حلب}}) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria and Turkey. The city of Aleppo was the Sanjak's capital.{{cite book|last=Karpat |first=K.H. |title=Ottoman population, 1830-1914: demographic and social characteristics |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres |location=Madison, Wis |year=1985 }}

Subdistricts

Later history

The territory of Aleppo Sanjak was divided between Turkey and Syria. Antakya and İskenderun (kazas of Halep Sanjak) were part of Syria after the Turkish War of Independence, but they became Hatay State in 1938, and finally joined Turkey in 1939.

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