The Sultan’s Prosperities in the Province of Levant 1545-1574 AD: Administration and Violations

The Levant province was one of the most important and largest Ottoman provinces, which attracted the attention of the Ottoman state because of its fertile lands and the multiple yields of crops that were cultivated there. In addition, many of the villages in this region were made part of the Sultanate's privately owned lands after the liberation of these lands. However, the weakness of ruling for some governors and the preoccupation of the Ottoman state with its wars at that times, as well as the mismanagement of lands of the sultanate properties as a result of granting these lands with a chaotic manner and not taking into consideration the administrative skill and experience. Eventually led to many abuses through which the Ottoman empire lost much of the money of these lands. Accordingly, many of the villagers of the sultanate privates migrated as a result of the abuses in these lands. After that the Ottoman state try to compensate these losses in the funds of the Sultanate properties by replacing them with other villages that are populated and have valuable and beneficial products than the villages that were destroyed by the violation of other villages belonging to the governors and princes of the Sanjak. This event made the most villagers of these lands think about the injustice and aggression inflicted on them and the chaotic policy of the Ottoman state in its management of the Arab provinces, primarily the Levant Province