Jerusalem Sanjak

The Sanjak of Jerusalem (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق قدس, romanized: Sancâk-ı Kudüs; Arabic: سنجق القدس, romanized: Sanjaq al-Quds) was an Ottoman sanjak that formed part of the Damascus Eyalet for much of its existence.^[1] It was created in the 16th century by the Ottoman Empire following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War.^[2] It was detached from the Syrian eyalet and placed directly under the Sublime Porte, the Ottoman central government, first for a brief period in 1841, and again in 1854.^[3]

1657 map showing the Gouvernement du Sangiac de Jerusalem, by Philippe de La Rue

An independent province, the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, was created in 1872.^[4] It ceased to exist in 1917 during the Great War as a result of British progress on the Middle Eastern front,^[5] when it became a British-administered occupied territory.^[6]