Jerusalem Sanjak

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

The Sanjak of Jerusalem (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق قدس, romanized: Sancâk-ı Kudüs; Arabic: سنجق القدس, romanized: Sanjaq al-Quds) was an Ottoman sanjak that formed part of the Damascus Eyalet for much of its existence.[1] It was created in the 16th century by the Ottoman Empire following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War.[2] It was detached from the Syrian eyalet and placed directly under the Ottoman central government, first for a brief period in 1841, and again in 1854.[3] An independent province, the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, was created in 1872.[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]

  1. ^ Abu-Manneh (1999), pp. 36-37.
  2. ^ Beshara (2012), pp. 22.
  3. ^ Abu-Manneh (1999), p. 38.
  4. ^ Abu-Manneh (1999), p. 39.
  5. ^ Powles & Wilkie (1922), pp.167-168.
  6. ^ Macmunn & Falls, p. 607.