Jerusalem Sanjak

1657 map showing the Gouvernement du Sangiac de Jerusalem, by Philippe de La Rue

The Sanjak of Jerusalem was an Ottoman administrative district, part of the Damascus Eyalet for much of its existence.^[1] It was created in the 16th century after the 1516 Turkish conquest of Palestine,^[2] detached from the Syrian eyalet and placed directly under the Ottoman central government in 1841,^[3] and created as an independent province in 1872 as the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem.^[4] It ceased to exist in 1917 during the Great War as a result of British progress on the Middle Eastern front,^[5] when it became a British-administered occupied territory.^[6]

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