Ottoman Empire And Palestine
The experience of jews in the ottoman empire is particularly significant because the.
Ottoman empire and palestine. Osman s name in turn was the turkish form of the arabic name ʿuthmān عثمان. By the time the ottoman empire rose to power in the 14th and 15th centuries there had been jewish communities established throughout the region. The ottoman empire lasted from the early 14th century until the end of world war i and covered parts of southeastern europe anatolia and much of the middle east. This map shows in dark brown the ottoman empire s territory in 1914 at the beginning of wwi.
Ottoman palestine the following is excerpted from part one of before their diaspora. The word ottoman is a historical anglicisation of the name of osman i the founder of the empire and of the ruling house of osman also known as the ottoman dynasty. Through it pass the main roads from egypt to syria and from the mediterranean to the hills beyond the jordan river. By the end of wwi the ottomans who were allied with the germans had been defeated and the empire was broken up.
Palestine area of the eastern mediterranean comprising parts of modern israel along with the west bank and the gaza strip. This empire included palestine see the location of jerusalem. It follows therefore that before palestine is liberated every other former ottoman territory must be reconquered by turkey. Because every setback for palestine only vindicates erdoğan s preferred neo ottoman narrative which is that arab nationalists should feel guilty and ashamed for having betrayed the ottoman empire in world war one.
The partitioning was planned in several agreements made by the allied powers early in the course of world war i notably the sykes picot agreement after the ottoman empire. In ottoman turkish the empire was referred to as devlet i ʿalīye yi ʿosmānīye دولت عليه عثمانیه literally the. The strategic importance of the area is immense. For example twenty years after ottoman soldiers had conquered jerusalem in 1516 incorporating palestine into an empire which stretched around the mediterranean from north africa to greece and eastwards to iraq sultan suleiman the magnificent ordered the construction of the iconic walls which still encircle the old city of jerusalem.
Situated at a strategic point between europe asia and africa and the birthplace of judaism and christianity the region has a long. A photographic history of the palestinians 1876 1948 by walid khalidi.