Palestine Under Ottoman Rule

The history of palestine is the study of the past in the region of palestine generally defined as a geographic region in the southern levant between the mediterranean sea and the jordan river where israel and palestine are today and various adjoining lands.

Palestine under ottoman rule. It was from the desert tribes supported by the british however that effective resistace to ottoman rule came after the ottomans entered the war on the side of the central powers. Palestine in the last period of the ottoman empire was first linked to the state of sidon later to syria and then to beirut which was founded in the last period. In 1878 following austro hungarian occupation of bosnia and herzegovina many bosnian muslims apprehensive of living under christian rule emigrated to the ottoman empire and significant numbers went to palestine where most adopted the surname bushnak. Whether or not there ever was a palestine or palestinians which would have included jews.

Situated at a strategic point between europe asia and africa and the birthplace of judaism and christianity the region has a long. The supporters of palestine will demonstrate around the world to demand the wrongs springing from the balfour declaration be overturned. Bosnian muslim immigration continued throughout the following decades and increased after. A photographic history of the palestinians 1876 1948 by walid khalidi.

When the ottoman turks defected the mameluke forces in 1517 palestine came under the rule of a new empire that was to dominate the entire near east for the next 400 years. This marked the beginning of four centuries of nearly uninterrupted ottoman rule over palestine. A family in ramallah north of jerusalem from 1516 until the end of world war i the whole region of western asia was part of the ottoman empire. And before we get onto that topic a brief primer.

Palestine under the ottoman empire arab revolt it is difficut to know the political attitudes of palestinians to ottoman rule. Ottoman palestine the following is excerpted from part one of before their diaspora. I don t know about who coined the term. To my mind the history no longer matters in terms of dispute.

Following the ottoman conquest in 1517 the land was divided into four districts and attached administratively to the province of damascus and ruled from istanbul at the outset of the ottoman era an estimated 1 000 jewish families lived in the country mainly in jerusalem nablus shechem hebron gaza safed tzfat and the villages of galilee the community was comprised of descendants of. At the outset particularly during the reign of sultan suleiman known in arabic as the law maker but better known as suleiman the magnificent jerusalem flourished.