Following the recommendations of the powers, the Ottoman Porte granted Lebanon local autonomy, guaranteed by the powers, under a Christian governor.

Midhat Pasha, the governor of Iraq, demanded that Kuwait submit to Ottoman rule.

However, under Abdullah II Al-Sabah, Kuwait pursued a general pro-Ottoman foreign policy, formally taking the title of Ottoman provincial governor, however this relationship with the Ottoman Empire did result in Ottoman interference with Kuwaiti laws or selection or rulers.

Finally, the Ottoman sultan Murad IV of Istanbul, wanting to thwart Lebanon's progress toward complete independence, ordered Kutshuk, then governor of Damascus, to attack the Lebanese ruler.

Born into poverty, he was elected emir upon the abdication of his predecessor, and would rule under Ottoman suzerainty, being appointed wali or governor of Mt Lebanon, the Biqa valley and Jabal Amil.

The Province of Lebanon that would be controlled by the Maronites, but the entire area was placed under direct rule of the governor of Damascus, and carefully watched by the Ottoman Empire.

The British agent T E Lawrence conspired with the Ottoman governor Syed Hussain bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca.

* 1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.

* June 9 – Lebanon is separated from Syrian administration and reunited under an Ottoman governor with the approval of the European powers.

* Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly Turakhan Beg breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the second time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

Fakhri Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Medina.

In 1855, the newly appointed Ottoman pasha (" governor ") of the sanjak (" district ") of Jerusalem, Kamil Pasha, attempted to subdue the rebellion in the Hebron region.

** Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula, to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.

* 21 / 22 May – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

Murad and the Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg ravage the Peloponnese peninsula at will, with the Sultan devastating the northern shore until Glarentza and Turakhan raiding in the interior.

For a short time it became the capital of a self-governing federation of the Heptanesos (" Seven Islands "), under Ottoman suzerainty ; in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit its faction-ridden government was again replaced by a French administration under governor François-Xavier Donzelot, and in 1809 it was besieged in vain by a British fleet, which had taken all the other Ionian islands.

Numerous reports from Ottoman officials, such as a parliament deputy, the governor of Allepo as well as the German consul in Van, suggested that deliberate provocations against the Armenians were being orchestrated by the local government.

In the first two months following the Ottoman Empire ’ s entry into the First World War, the Turkish governor of Jerusalem, Zakey Bey, offered to sell the Moroccan Quarter, which consisted of about 25 houses, to the Jews in order to enlarge the area available to them for prayer.

Ahmed Asım Bey's predecessor was his son ; Mehmed Nebil Bey ( Born in Istanbul, 1888 ) who also served as a governor during Ottoman Empire in Syria.

Muhammad Ali Pasha, Ottoman wali ( governor ) of Egypt 1805-49, whose expedition to the Peloponnese precipitated Great Power intervention in the Greek conflict.

A new mosque, Masjid al-Jadid, was erected by the Ottoman governor of Damascus between 1733 and 1743.

** Again since the effective end of Ottoman rule, remarkably since 1857 ( i. e. before the last Wali ( governor ), Isma ` il Pasha, was raised Khedive ( circa Viceroy, on 8 June 1867 ), exchanged for the western Prime ministers on 28 August 1878 ( before the formally independent sultanate was proclaimed ).

Meeting of Druze and Ottoman leaders in Damascus, about the control of Jebel Druze

The Mamluk province of Bilad a-Sham ( Syria ) was conquered by Turkish Sultan Selim II in 1516 – 17, becoming a part of the province of Ottoman Syria for the next four centuries, first as the Damascus Eyalet and later as the Syria Vilayet ( following the Tanzimat reorganization of 1864 ).

In 1822 the Ottoman wali of Damascus went to war with Acre, which was allied with Muhammad Ali, the pasha of Egypt.

The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

* Timur defeats both the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to capture the city of Damascus in present-day Syria.

It was authored in Safed, Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus, by Yosef Karo in 1563 and published in Venice two years later.

Some went further east to the Arabic-speaking territories of the Ottoman Empire, settling among the long-established Arabic-speaking Jewish communities in Baghdad, Damascus and Alexandria.

Ja ’ far fought under Amir Faisal throughout this period up until the fall of the Ottoman Empire, including Faisal ’ s assault on Damascus in 1918.

The port of Aqaba was a major Ottoman port on the red sea, connected to Damascus and Medina by the Hejaz railway.

He took Acre after a severe siege on May 27, 1832, occupied Damascus, defeated an Ottoman army at Homs on July 8 defeated another Ottoman army at Beilan on July 29, invaded Asia Minor, and finally routed the grand vizier Reşid Mehmet Pasha at Konya on December 21.

The Sinan-paša that lead the Ottoman army ordered that green flag of Muhammad should be brought from Damascus to confront this flag with image of Saint Sava.

Under the Ottoman Empire, al-Khisas was administered as part of a sanjak in the vilayet of Damascus, and was later redesignated a part the vilayet of Sidon ( renamed the vilayet of Beirut ).

He later enlisted in the Ottoman army when World War I broke out, where he received military training and was attached as a chaplain to a base near Damascus.

The King of Syria, was the title briefly used following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Faysal ibn Husayn of the House of Hashim was proclaimed King of Greater Syria on 8 March 1920 in Damascus, following the Arab revolt against the Ottomans of 1916 – 1918.

Overall, the campaign to the fall of Damascus resulted in the surrender of 75, 000 Ottoman soldiers.

Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü ( 13 August 1903, Damascus, Ottoman Empire – 27 December 1981, Istanbul, Turkey ) was a Turkish political figure.

* District of Acre, an administrative district of Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus, between 1800 and 1948

After returning to Damascus, he entered the Ottoman civil service.

In the classical period of the Ottoman Empire, Bursa, Damascus and the Derbent regions became the most famous swordsmithing centers of the empire.

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