Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem

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The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was a special administrative district of the late Ottoman Empire centered on Jerusalem, directly governed from Istanbul due to its religious and strategic importance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ottoman administrative division
mutasarrifate
alsoKnownAs Kudüs-i Şerif Mutasarrıflığı
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
surface form: Sanjak of Jerusalem (in some sources)
appliesToPart Beersheba
Gaza Strip
surface form: Gaza

Hebron
Jaffa
Jerusalem
capital Jerusalem
commonLanguage Arabic
containsReligiousSite Al-Aqsa Mosque
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Western Wall
country Ottoman Empire
demographics mixed Muslim, Christian and Jewish population
directlySubjectTo Istanbul
Ottoman chancery
surface form: Sublime Porte
dissolutionCause British conquest of Jerusalem in 1917
endTime 1917
establishedBy Ottoman provincial administration
surface form: Ottoman central government
followedBy British authorities in Mandatory Palestine
surface form: British military administration in Palestine

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
governmentType Ottoman provincial administration
hasBorderWith Egypt
Kaza of Maʿan
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
surface form: Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon

Sanjak of Acre
Sanjak of Nablus
headOfGovernmentTitle mutasarrif
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Greater Syria
Ottoman Syria
locatedOn Eastern Mediterranean
Levant region
surface form: Levant
officialLanguage Ottoman Turkish
partOf Ottoman Empire
partOfPresentDay Jordan (country)
surface form: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Israel
surface form: State of Israel

State of Palestine
precededBy Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ottoman Sanjak of Jerusalem
reasonForSpecialStatus religious importance
strategic importance
religion Christianity
Islam
Judaism
significantEvent Ottoman administrative reforms
World War I
startTime 1872
timeZone Eastern European Time (historical approximation)

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Ottoman Palestine includesAdministrativeUnit Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem precededBy Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ottoman Sanjak of Jerusalem
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem alsoKnownAs Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
this entity surface form: Sanjak of Jerusalem (in some sources)
Occupied Enemy Territory South precededBy Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Lydda partOf Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem