Ottoman Palestine

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Ottoman Palestine was a province of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that encompassed much of the historic Land of Israel/Palestine prior to British rule.


Statements (59)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
part of the Ottoman Empire
administrativeStructure Sanjaks and vilayets of the Ottoman Empire
appliesToPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
borderChange Sykes–Picot Agreement
surface form: "Sykes–Picot Agreement (secret wartime agreement affecting its future division)"
capital Jerusalem
surface form: "Jerusalem (for the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem)"
containsEthnicGroup Arabs
Armenians
Circassians
Jews
Turks
containsReligiousCommunity Christians
Druze
Jews
Muslims
country Ottoman Empire
currency Ottoman lira
endCause British Mandate for Palestine
surface form: "British military occupation of Palestine"

defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I
endTime 1917
1918
followedBy British Mandate for Palestine
follows Mamluk rule in the Levant
includesAdministrativeUnit Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Ottoman Syria
surface form: "Sanjak of Acre"

Nablus Governorate
surface form: "Sanjak of Nablus"

parts of Beirut Vilayet
parts of Damascus Vilayet
includesTerritory Acre
Galilee
Gaza Strip
surface form: "Gaza"

Haifa
Hebron
Jaffa
Jerusalem
Judea
Nablus
Samaria
language Arabic
Hebrew (religious and communal use)
Ottoman Turkish
surface form: "Ottoman Turkish (administrative)"
locatedIn Levant region
surface form: "Levant"

Middle East
Middle East
surface form: "Western Asia"
overlaps Gaza Strip
West Bank
historic Land of Israel
historic Palestine
Israel
surface form: "modern State of Israel"

parts of modern Jordan
partOf Ottoman Empire
religion Islam
surface form: "Islam (state religion of the Ottoman Empire)"
significantEvent Hovevei Zion
surface form: "First Aliyah (Jewish immigration wave, 1882–1903)"

Second Aliyah (Jewish immigration wave, 1904–1914)
Tanzimat
surface form: "Tanzimat reforms"

Sinai and Palestine campaign
surface form: "World War I campaigns in the Sinai and Palestine"

construction of railways such as the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway
startTime 1517

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Theodor Herzl countryOfProposedState Ottoman Palestine
Meir Dizengoff countryOfResidence Ottoman Palestine
Labor Zionism developedIn Ottoman Palestine
kibbutz movement emergedIn Ottoman Palestine
subject surface form: "Kibbutz movement"
Basel Program geopoliticalContext Ottoman Palestine
this entity surface form: "Ottoman-ruled Palestine"
Etz Chaim hasGeographicalContext Ottoman Palestine
subject surface form: "David Ben-Gurion"
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi immigratedTo Ottoman Palestine
Practical Zionism isAssociatedWith Ottoman Palestine
this entity surface form: "Jewish agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine"
Isaac Luria region Ottoman Palestine
Lecha Dodi regionOfComposition Ottoman Palestine

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