Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem

An Ottoman administrative demarcation, also known as the “sanjak” of Jerusalem, created in 1872 for the province of Jerusalem. The mutasarrifate included Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, Beersheba, and Gaza, and, along with the sanjaks of Nablus and Acre to the north, formed the geographic region known as Palestine. Previously, the district had been part of the Damascus eyalet, a larger administrative division, but was separated and administered directly by Istanbul in 1841 before officially receiving its independent status in 1872. The mutasarrifate was dissolved upon Britain’s occupation of Palestine in December 1917.