The Sanjak of Jerusalem was an Ottoman administrative district, part of the

Damascus Eyalet ota, ایالت شام , conventional_long_name = Damascus Eyalet , common_name = Damascus Eyalet , subdivision = Eyalet , nation = the Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1516 , year_end ...

for much of its existence.Abu-Manneh (1999), pp
36
37. It was created in the 16th century after the 1516 Turkish conquest of Palestine,Beshara (2012), pp
22
detached from the

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eyalet Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, , English: State), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman local government ...

and placed directly under the Ottoman central government in 1841,Abu-Manneh (1999), p
38
and created as an independent province in 1872 as the

Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem ( ota, مُتَصَرِّف قدسی مُتَصَرِّفلغ, ; ar, متصرفية القدس الشريف, ), also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status ...

.Abu-Manneh (1999), p
39
It ceased to exist in 1917 during the

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as a result of British progress on the Middle Eastern front, when it became a British-administered occupied territory.Macmunn & Falls, p
607

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Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...