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Palestine/Israel: A Primer: How did populations coexist in Ottoman Palestine?

Coexistence

Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, Jewish peoples, Druze, Syriac Christians, and many others lived in Ottoman Palestine under the millet system. All of these peoples coexisted in everyday life, but had different legal and local governance systems according to their religion.

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