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17-505: North Governorate is divided into districts, or aqdya . The districts are listed below (capitals in parentheses): A law was passed in 2003 by former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to separate Akkar District from North Governorate and form a new governorate, Akkar Governorate . Implementation of Akkar Governorate began in 2014 with the appointment of its first governor. Top attractions in North Governorate include places such as

34-608: A sanjakbey . Each kaza was in turn made up of one or more nahiyes ("districts") under müdürs and mütesellims and several karyes ("villages") under muhtars . With the first round of Tanzimat reforms in 1839, the administrative duties of each district's kadi were transferred to a kaymakam ("governor") appointed by the Ministry of the Interior and a treasurer, with the kadis restricted to solely religious and judicial roles. Kazas were further emended and distinguished from

51-509: A district officer, who was typically either Jewish or Arab, based on the ethnic make-up of the sub-district. By the end of the mandate period, Palestine was divided into 6 districts and 16 subdistricts. During the Ottoman period, Palestine was divided into different provinces, each centered around a main city: Safed, Acre, Nablus, Jerusalem and Gaza. These provinces contained sub-districts centered around provincial towns. For example, during

68-682: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Qadaa A kaza ( Ottoman Turkish : قضا , "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire . It is also discussed in English under the names district , subdistrict , and juridical district . Kazas continued to be used by some of the empire's successor states. At present, they are used by Iraq , Lebanon , Jordan , and in Arabic discussion of Israel . In these contexts, they are also known by

85-593: The Cedars of God , Qadisha Valley , Gibran Museum , Citadel Saint Gilles , Phoenician Wall, Deir Qozhaya, Khan Al-Khayyatin, Horsh Ehden Nature Reserve , Ixsir, St. Stephan's Cathedral, Tannourine Cedar Forest Nature Reserve and Baatara Pothole. Religion in the North Governorate (2018) Sunnis make up the overwhelming majority in the city of Tripoli and the Minyeh and Danniyeh districts with some presence in Zgharta and

102-510: The 18th and 19th centuries, sub-district of Lod encompassed the area between Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land. Until June 1920, Palestine

119-525: The Arabic name qada , qadā , or qadaa ( Arabic : قضاء , qaḍāʾ ). In the Ottoman Empire, a kaza was originally equivalent to the kadiluk , the district subject to the legal and administrative jurisdiction of a kadi or judge of Islamic law . This usually corresponded to a major city of the empire with its surrounding villages. A small number of kazas made up each sanjak ("banner") under

136-868: The Hebron Sub-district was combined with the Jerusalem Division to form the Jerusalem District. This was the subdivision at the time of the November 1931 census of Palestine . In July 1937, but not gazetted until October, the Administrative Divisions (Amendment) Proclamation divided the Northern District into two districts. In 1938, the Beersheba and Gaza sub-districts were separated from

153-485: The Koura districts, Alawites are present only in a small part in the city of Tripoli, while Christians make up the overwhelming majority in Zgharta, Batroun, Bsharri and Koura districts (91% based on registered voters). According to the 2018 general election, 52.9% of the electorate was Sunni, while 44% was Christian, mainly Maronites and Orthodox; a very small percentage was Alawite or Shia Muslim. This however does not include

170-671: The Southern District. Then in 1939, the Administrative Division (Amendment) Proclamation reshaped the country into six districts. The name of the Galilee and Acre District was changed to Galilee District in December. Some minor adjustments were made in December 1940. The Administrative Divisions (Amendment) Proclamation, 1942 reduced the number of sub-districts of the Jerusalem District to three, merging

187-494: The districts varied over time, as did their subdivision into sub-districts. In Arabic , a district was known as a minṭaqah (منطقة, plural manaṭiq مناطق), while in Hebrew it was known as a mahoz (מחוז, plural mehozot מחוזות). Each district had an administration headed by a district governor, a role renamed as district commissioner in 1925. Sub-districts were managed by an assistant district commissioner. They were aided by

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204-776: The kadiluks under the 1864 Provincial Reform Law, implemented over the following decade as part of efforts by the Porte to establish uniform and rational administration across the empire. The 1871 revisions removed the kazas' responsibility for direct supervision of their villages, placing them all under nearby nahiyes instead. The subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine were known as nafa ( נָפָה‎ ) in Hebrew but as kaza, qada, etc. in Arabic. The same terms continue to be used in present-day Israel and Palestine . Syria used kazas, qadas, etc. as its second-level administrative division after independence but later renamed them mintaqahs . The Republic of Turkey continued to use kazas until

221-416: The late 1920s, when it renamed them subprovinces ( ilçe ). Kaza, qada, etc. is also used to refer to the following: Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine The districts and sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of

238-455: The population under 18 years nor non-nationals (including both Syrians and Palestinians). Top attractions in North Governorate include places such as The North governorate is divided into two separate electoral constituencies: North II (Tripoli-Minnieh-Danniyeh) and North III (Batroun-Zghorta-Koura-Bsharri). North II's seats are distributed as follows: North III's seats are distributed as follows: This Lebanon location article

255-653: The time of the October, 1922, census of Palestine, there were four districts divided into 18 sub-districts. A proclamation of June 1924 divided the country into three districts with 18 sub-districts. In August 1925, the Southern and Jerusalem-Jaffa Districts were combined into the Jerusalem-Southern District. In July 1927, the divisions were proclaimed to consist of two districts and one division, divided into 18 sub-districts. In October 1931,

272-439: Was revised after the adoption of a civilian administration in the middle of 1920. In September 1920, the districts were Jerusalem, Galilee, Phoenicia (formerly Haifa), Samaria, Jaffa, Gaza and Beersheva. In July 1922, administrations of the districts of Phoenicia and Galilee were combined, as were the districts of Jerusalem and Jaffa, and the districts of Gaza and Beersheba. Some reassignment of sub-districts also occurred. At

289-485: Was under a formal military regime called O.E.T.A. (South) . Initially the country was divided into 13 administrative districts, reduced to 10 in 1919, each under a military government. At the start of 1920 there were 9 districts: Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, Jenin, Safed, Acre, Tiberias, Tulkarem and Beersheba, but this division was modified by the following month to Jerusalem, Haifa, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Safed, Acre, Tiberias, Galilee, Tulkarem and Beersheba. The division

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