The subsequent Syrian reforms of Ottoman sultan…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

The subsequent Syrian reforms of Ottoman sultan Mahmud II and his son are more theoretical than real and are counteracted by reactionary forces inside the state as well as by the inertia of Ottoman officials.

Reforms prove somewhat successful with the Kurds and Turkomans in the north and with the Alawis around Latakia, but unsuccessful with the Druzes—who live in the Jabal Druze (present-day Jabal al Arab), a rugged mountainous area in southwest Syria—who retain their administrative and judicial autonomy and exemption from military service.

Although further reform attempts generally fail, some of the more successful endure.

Among them are the colonization of Syria's frontiers, the suppression of tribal raiding, the opening of new lands to cultivation, and the beginnings of the settlement of the Bedouin tribes.

Attempts to register the land fail, however, because of the peasants' fear of taxation and conscription.

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Damascus > Dimashq Dimashq Syria View →

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Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt View → Mahmud II View → Muhammad Ali of Egypt View →

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Egyptians View → Arab people View → Kurdish people View → Bedouin View → Syrian people View → Turkmen, Syrian View → Druze, or Druse, the View → Ottoman Empire View → Damascus Eyalet View → Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of View →

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Turco-Egyptian War, First View → Tanzimat View → Egyptian–Ottoman War, Second View →

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