Najd Sanjak

Najd Sanjak
*Necid Sancağı* (Turkish)
نجد سنجق (Arabic)
*TBA* (Ottoman Turkish)
Najd Sanjak Necid Sancağı (Turkish); نجد سنجق (Arabic); TBA (Ottoman Turkish)
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
1871–1915
	; 1886 map showing part of the sanjak of Nejd (Liva de Nedjed)
Capital	Hofuf
Demonym	Najdi
Population
• 1896	82,900
History
• Established	1871
• Disestablished	1915
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Emirate of Nejd
Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Today part of	Saudi Arabia; Qatar; Kuwait

The sanjak of Najd (Arabic: لواء نجد) was a sanjak (second-level province) of the Ottoman Empire. The name is considered misleading, as it covered the al-Hasa region, rather than the much larger Najd region.^[1] It was part of Baghdad Vilayet from June 1871 to 1875, when it became part of the Basra Vilayet.^[3]

The mutasarrif was located in Hofuf, which was garrisoned by up to 600 men, the largest Ottoman force in the area.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Briton Cooper Busch (January 1967). Britain and the Persian Gulf: 1894 - 1914. University of California Press. p. 31. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
^ Osmanli Viayet Salnamelerinde Basra (PDF). Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies. 2012. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-975-8975-04-4.
^ Worldstatesmen — Saudi Arabia

[Busch1967-1] Briton Cooper Busch (January 1967). Britain and the Persian Gulf: 1894 - 1914. University of California Press. p. 31. Retrieved 2013-06-08.

[orsamp111-2] Osmanli Viayet Salnamelerinde Basra (PDF). Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies. 2012. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-975-8975-04-4.

[3] Worldstatesmen — Saudi Arabia

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