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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Palestine, located on the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, has a long and storied history dating back thousands of years. While some families and tribes living in Palestine maintained family lineages throughout that time, the first state-sponsored and comprehensive population registers were taken by the Ottoman Empire, which conquered Mamluk Palestine in 1516. Ottoman Palestine was part of an elayet, or administrative district, based in Damascus, and was further subdivided into five sanjaks: Safad, Nablus, Jerusalem, Lajjun, and Gaza. Although Ottoman control of Palestinian affairs was fairly decentralized and weak during much of this period (with the Empire even briefly losing control of Palestine to Mohammad Ali's Egyptian army in the early 1800's), imperial reforms beginning in the second half of the 19th century led to more direct Ottoman control of the territory. The Empire began taking censuses of its population, including in Palestine, with varying degrees of comprehensiveness up until its collapse in 1918. For more information on these censuses, see Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers. |
