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For this reason, "they combined the region of Mosul in which Kurds were in majority, with the other two Ottoman provinces of Baghdad in which Sunnis were in the majority and Basra in which Shi'ites were in the majority. This way, in South Mesopotamia, they produced a rich, mandate government which possessed a strategic location and which would make their empire in India stronger.