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Al-Jayyusi ( Arabic : الجیوسي ; also spelled Jayousi , Jayossi , Jayyousi , or Juyushi ) is a prominent Palestinian business and political clan whose members acted as rulers, local lords , army generals and tax collectors since the 11th century. They were the traditional leaders of the Bani Sa'b subdistrict ( nahiya ), which included their throne villages of Kur and Kafr Sur ; Jayyus the village named after the patronymic of the family founder, Fatimid Vizier and Governor of Damascus ( Badr al-Din al-Jamali ) who was known by his military title Amīr al-Juyūsh ( Arabic : أمير الجيوش ; General of the Armies ) where the name 'Juyush-i' was designated to his property, lands and all decedents in Egypt and Palestine . Other Palestinian villages that were considered within the Jayyusi clan's stronghold include Qalqilya , Tayibe , Jinsafut , Kafr Zibad and Kafr Jammal .

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17-665: The Jayyusi clan had served as the local rulers of the Bani Sa'b subdistrict ( nahiya ) beginning at the 11th century during the Fatimid dynasty and 15th century Burji Mamluk rule in Palestine . When the area came under Ottoman rule, the clan continued to rule and was commissioned by the Ottoman authorities to protect the part of the Cairo - Damascus highway that ran between Majdal Yaba and Qaqun . As

34-625: A müdür ) and villages ( karye , each governed by a muhtar ). Revisions of 1871 to the administrative law established the nahiye (still governed by a müdür ) as an intermediate level between the kaza and the village. The term was adopted by the Principality of Serbia (1817–1833) and Principality of Montenegro (1852–1910), as nahija ( Serbian Cyrillic : нахија ). Spelled in Persian: ناحيه , it may refer to following settlements: This article about geography terminology

51-519: A standing army to take part to the First and Second Serbo Turkish Wars of 1876-1878 , the first conflict in the nation's modern history, after which the country gained its full independence. It was succeeded by the Royal Serbian Army . In the first decades of the principality, the population was about 85% Serb and 15% non-Serb. Of those, most were Vlachs, and there were some Muslim Albanians, which were

68-518: A testament to the continuing influence of the Jayyusi clan, Bani Sa'b was the only Mamluk-era subdistrict of Jabal Nablus to not be renamed. In 1766, the Nablus -based Tuqan family under Mustafa Beik, managed to gain appointment as the chief of Bani Sa'b, temporarily sidelining the Jayyusi clan. This seizure of power was the first time an urban notable family gained direct control over a rural subdistrict and

85-566: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Principality of Serbia The Principality of Serbia ( Serbian : Књажество Србија , romanized :  Knjažestvo Srbija ) was an autonomous, later sovereign state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution , which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was negotiated first through an unwritten agreement between Miloš Obrenović , leader of

102-494: Is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan , it is a second-level division while in Syria , Iraq , Lebanon , Jordan , Xinjiang , and the former Ottoman Empire , where it was also called a bucak , it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a qadaa , mintaqah or other such district -type division and

119-550: Is sometimes translated as " subdistrict ". The nahiye ( Ottoman Turkish : ناحیه ) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire , smaller than a kaza . The head was a mütesellim (governor) who was appointed by the Pasha . The kaza was a subdivision of a sanjak and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages. Kaza s, in turn, were divided into nahiye s (each governed by

136-643: The Israeli Army following the Six-Day War . Members of the clan who were able to remain, are today the only inhabitants of the throne village of Kur (located in the middle of Nablus , Tulkarem and Qalqilia district triangle, which was the former administrative center of the Bani Sa'b district.) Today, 29 historic buildings remain standing in the village. Nahiya A nāḥiyah ( Arabic : نَاحِيَة [ˈnaːħijah] , plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي [naˈwaːħiː] ), also nahiyeh , nahiya or nahia ,

153-616: The Ottoman flag continue to fly over the fortress alongside the Serbian one. Serbia's de facto independence dates from this event. A new constitution in 1869 defined Serbia as an independent state. Serbia was further expanded to the southeast in 1878, when its independence from the Ottoman Empire won full international recognition at the Treaty of Berlin . The Principality would last until 1882 when it

170-646: The Second Serbian Uprising , and Ottoman official Marashli Pasha . It was followed by the series of legal documents published by the Sublime Porte in 1828, 1829 and finally, 1830—the Hatt-i Sharif . Its de facto independence ensued in 1867, following the evacuation of the remaining Ottoman troops from the Belgrade Fortress and the country; its independence was recognized internationally in 1878 by

187-470: The Treaty of Berlin . In 1882 the country was elevated to the status of kingdom . The Serbian revolutionary leaders—first Karađorđe and then Miloš Obrenović —succeeded in their goal of liberating Serbia from centuries-long Turkish rule. Turkish authorities acknowledged the state by the 1830 Hatt-i Sharif , and Miloš Obrenović became a hereditary prince (knjaz) of the Serbian Principality. Serbia

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204-568: The east, south, and west. In 1866 Serbia began the campaign of forging the First Balkan Alliance by signing a series of agreements with other Balkan entities in the period 1866–68. On 18 April 1867 the Ottoman government ordered the Ottoman garrison, which since 1826 had been the last representation of Ottoman suzerainty in Serbia, withdrawn from the Belgrade fortress . The only stipulation was that

221-669: The move put the Tuqan in conflict with Jayyusi allies, the Sanur -based Jarrar family and the autonomous ruler of Galilee , Zahir al-Umar . The latter expelled the Tuqans from Bani Sa'b in 1771. According to the Palestinian historian Mustafa al-Dabbagh in his book Our Land Palestine , the Jayyusi clan took part in the Peasants' Revolt , along with most of Palestine's prominent clans, against Ibrahim Pasha ,

238-627: The overwhelming majority of the Muslims that lived in Smederevo , Kladovo and Ćuprija . The new state aimed to homogenize its population. As a result, from 1830 to the wars of the 1870s in which Albanians were expelled from the country , it has been estimated that up to 150,000 Albanians that lived in the territories of the Principality of Serbia had been expelled. In 1862 more than 10,000 Muslims were expelled to Ottoman Bulgaria and Ottoman Bosnia. During

255-548: The ruler of the Levant when he imposed new taxes and conscription orders on the local population. The Jayyusi clan built and inhabited the throne village of Kur since the 11th century AD during the Fatmid Dynasty by the family founder Badr al-Din al-Jamali and his Acre born son Al-Afdal Shahanshah . In modern history, after the creation of State of Israel in 1948, one third of the inhabitants were forced out of their homes by

272-452: Was de jure an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire , its autonomy was constrained by the presence of the Turkish army on its soil and by being forced to pay to Istanbul a yearly tribute of 2.3 million groschen , which represented about 10% of the country's budget. At first, the principality included only the territory of the former Pashaluk of Belgrade , but in 1831–33 it expanded to

289-469: Was raised to the level of the Kingdom of Serbia . The principality was divided into seventeen districts known as Okrug which were then divided into a number of cantons, known as Sres , according to the size of the district. The Principality had a total of sixty-six Sres . The Armed Forces of the Principality of Serbia was the armed forces of the Principality of Serbia. Founded in 1830, it became

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