Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire, 7 Safar 1284

In a solemn ceremony chaired by Sultan Abd al-Majid I and attended by high dignitaries including ministers and ulama, and ambassadors to the Sublime Porte, a firman, known as Gulhane Hatti Cherif,...

Sultan Abd al-Majid I adopts a firman delimiting the possessory rights and the spatial and temporal usage rights concerning the modes of sharing control over the Christian holy places in Jerusalem...

Under pressure from Great Britain, France, and Austria (three countries that supported the Ottoman Empire against Russia in the Crimean War of 1854–1856 ), Sultan Abd al-Majid I adopts an edict,...

The Ottoman Land Code confirms the existing legal doctrine concerning land categories and land acquisition.

As part of the Tanzimat reorganization throughout Greater Syria, the Sublime Porte decide to join the Province of Damascus to that of Saida to form the Province of Syria (Suriye Vilayeti), with...

The Ottoman law of nationality aligns with similar European laws, in terms of presumption of nationality.

The passage of the Ottoman Education Law brings about a massive expansion of the modern educational system throughout the empire, in particular in major cities in the Levant.

The Treaty of Berlin is signed by Russia and the Ottoman Empire, together with other European powers, in the aftermath of the Russian victorious war (that started in April 1877) over the Ottomans.

To avoid dealing with another national problem within the empire, the Ottoman Council of Ministers spells out the conditions that shall govern Jewish immigration: (1) European Jews are welcome to...

Tension mounts between Palestinian Arabs from the village of al-Yahudiyya and Jewish settlers from the Petah Tikva settlement over land ownership and grazing and passage rights.