The Mutasarrifate of Karak (Turkish: Kerek Mutasarrıflığı), also known as the Sanjak of Karak, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status established in 1895, located in modern-day Jordan. The city of Karak was the district's capital. It had a population of 72,562 in 1914.[1]
^Karpat, K.H. (1985). Ottoman population, 1830-1914: demographic and social characteristics. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Pres.
The Mutasarrifate of Karak (Turkish: Kerek Mutasarrıflığı), also known as the Sanjak of Karak, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status...
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recorded as the only tribesmen living in the southern, inland area of the KarakSanjak of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. According to the Ottoman historian...
village became a nahiye (subdistrict) center of the kaza of al-Salt in the KarakSanjak established in 1894. By 1908 Amman contained 800 houses divided between...
four sanjaks: Damascus, Hama, Hauran and Karak. The Vilayet's capital was Damascus. Map of Ottoman Levant showing the Beirut Vilayet and its Sanjaks and...
(Arabic: متصرفية القدس الشريف) Mutasarrifate of Karak (from 1895) (Arabic: متصرفية الكرك) The sanjak Zor and the major part of the vilayet Aleppo may...
named as Kafr Rabba, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Karak, part of the Sanjak of Ajlun. It had 16 Muslim and 3 Christian households. They paid...
replaced Fakhr al-Din's son Ali as sanjak-bey of Safed and replaced his other son Husayn and Mustafa Kethuda as the sanjak-beys of Ajlun and Nablus respectively...
location from crusaders. Along with Balqa and Karak governorates, Ajloun was formerly a united sanjak of the Ottoman Empire. Ajloun is known for its...
mutasarrifate (mutasarriflık),[clarification needed] was officially called a sanjak (سنجاق) in Turkish or liwa (لواء) in Arabic and Persian. A mutasarrif was...
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and the rebel army quickly defeated and took over towns throughout the sanjak, technically fighting for the Sultan. Sultan Selim III, fearing their power...
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the Nablus Sanjak and Acre Sanjak (under Beirut Vilayet from 1888 and previously under Syria Vilayet), and a short-lived Mutasarrıfate of Karak (split as...
wali (provincial governor) of Damascus (1757) and Marash (1762), and the sanjak-bey (district governor) of his native Gaza (1763–1765). Husayn Pasha ibn...
alˈħisˤn]; Old French: Crac des Chevaliers or Crac de l'Ospital, lit. 'karak [fortress] of the hospital'; from Classical Syriac: ܟܪܟܐ, romanized: karəḵā...
district known as Transjordan, there were the districts Ajlun, al-Balqa, al-Karak and Ma'an. In the second half of the nineteenth century, The Tanzimat laid...
the Al-Fayez as their Emirate has vassalized the local arabs such as Al-Karak with the Majali and Al-Tafilah with Al-Huara and the Bani Hamidah earlier...
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