Karak revolt

Karak revolt

View of Syria Vilayet
Date4–10 December 1910
Location
Al-Karak
31°10′50″N 35°42′05″E / 31.180556°N 35.701389°E / 31.180556; 35.701389
Result

Rebellion suppressed:

  • Execution of ten revolt leaders
Belligerents
 Ottoman Empire Inhabitants of Al-Karak
Commanders and leaders
Sami Pasha Muhemet Tahir Pasha
Karak revolt is located in Jordan
Karak revolt
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Location within Jordan

The Karak revolt was an uprising against Ottoman authority in the Transjordanian town of Al-Karak, which erupted on 4 December 1910.[1] The revolt came after Sami Pasha, the governor of Damascus, wanted to apply the same measures of conscription, taxation, and disarmament to the inhabitants of Al-Karak that previously provoked the Hauran Druze Rebellion.[2]

Al-Karak rose in revolt days after the arrival of an Ottoman census team, and insurgency quickly spread to neighboring towns of Ma'an and Tafila and a number of stations along the Hejaz Railway. Sami Pasha's forces ended the revolt with a random massacre,[3] hundreds of people were imprisoned and ten revolt leaders were executed. The brutal suppression of the revolt had greatly angered the Karakis and is thought to have contributed to their support of the 1916 Great Arab Revolt.[4]

  1. ^ Fischbach, Michael R. (2000). State, Society, and Land in Jordan. BRILL. ISBN 9004119124.
  2. ^ Heydemann, Steven; Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East (2000). War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224223.
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