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The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem (Ottoman Turkish: قُدس شَرِيف مُتَصَرِّفلغى, Kudüs-i Şerif Mutasarrıflığı; Arabic: متصرفية القدس الشريف, Mutaṣarrifiyyat al-quds aš-šarīf, French: Moutassarifat de Jérusalem), also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status established in 1872.
The Jewish Quarter remained under Jordanian rule until the Six-Day War in June 1967 when Israel occupied it. During the first week after taking the Old City, Israel dynamited the Mughrabi Quarter , demolishing 135 houses, and two mosques on waqf property and evicting the 650 Arab residents in order that, on the razed ground, a plaza could be ...
The British had to deal with a conflicting demand that was rooted in Ottoman rule. Agreements for the supply of water, electricity, and the construction of a tramway system—all under concessions granted by the Ottoman authorities—had been signed by the city of Jerusalem and a Greek citizen, Euripides Mavromatis, on 27 January 1914.
In addition to the already existent Jewish population in the lands the Ottomans conquered, many more Jews were given refuge after the expulsion of Jews from Spain under the reign of Beyezid II. Although the status of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire may have been exaggerated, [ 4 ] it is undeniable that some tolerance was enjoyed.
Jerusalem municipal area. From 1517 until the First World War, Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire.It was part of the Damascus eyalet (province) until, as a result of widespread administrative reform in the mid-1800s, it became an independent sanjak (district) in 1872.
Jerusalem was not divided among the tribes — Yoma 12a; A snake or scorpion never injured anyone in Jerusalem — Yoma 21a; Whoever did not see Jerusalem in her glory has never seen a beautiful city — Sukkah 51b; Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, Jerusalem took nine — Kidushin 49b; Jerusalem is the light of the world ...
Jewish workers in Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem in the mid-19th century. From 1831 to 1840, Syria fell under the rule of the Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali of Egypt and his son Ibrahim Pasha, who effectively extended the Egyptian domination to Damascus, driving the Ottomans north.
A branch of the Ghudayyas became known as the al-Husayni family in the mid-18th century, [2] [9] and played a highly influentially role in Jerusalem's affairs during the remaining decades of Ottoman rule and whose members were leaders of the Palestinian national movement in the post-World War I period. [2]