FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: Algerians, Circassians, Bosnians settled here too
TRUETHE ANSWER
Under the Ottomans, Algerians and Circassians had settled around Haifa, Nazareth and Tiberias by 1908, and Bosnian Muslims founded a colony at Caesarea in the late 1800s.
SOURCE
Mandel, Arabs and Zionism before WWI (UC Press 1976); J. Palestine Studies 45:1 (2015)
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PEOPLE ALSO SAY
- “Egyptians settled”
- “Ibrahim pasha”
- “Ottoman settlers”
- “Arabs came under ottomans”
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