The Karbala Civilizational Encyclopedia touched on its historical axis of the section of modern and contemporary history to the documents of the Ottoman rule over Iraq.
Among those documents obtained by the Karbala Center for Studies and Research at the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussein "A. S", a document for the map of Iraq during the Mamluk era as shown below, in which the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf appear in the early 1803 AD.
Source:
Mawsueat Karbala Al-Hadharia "Karbala Civilizational Encyclopedia".
A publication of Karbala Center for Studies and Research
Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Ottoman Documents.
[Vol. 7, Pg. 487].
