Challenger
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...actually it was called the mutasarrifiyet of Jerusalem and vilayet of Damascus. It was not palestinian anything
It was not palestine (mandate) until the LoN gave control to the British.
Only since 1872 when the Ottomans created those particular Sanjaks and Vilayets. prior to that the Ottomans refered to the area as "Southern Syria" or "Palestine" the locals and the Ottoman Army tended to favour the latter (Ottoman Military maps of the area call it Fillastin), government officials in Istanbul, the former. The British already had control in 1918, the mandate was a rubber stamp.
really????
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Yes Really. Check out the "Filastin Risalesi" (Military Survey of Palestine) issued to the Ottoman 8th Army Corps in 1915. There's no link I can provide as it's not been digitised, but there's a copy in the Imperial War Museum. Also cited in, “The land of Palestine in the late Ottoman period as mirrored in Western guide books”--E. Bosworth (British Journal of MiddleEastern Studies, 13 (1) (1986): 39.) , "Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872-1908" -- By Johann Büssow, along with numerous period Turkish records. Administrative titles are largely irrelevant outside of local and regional governments all over the world. Colloquially people refer to themselves based on where they were born and raised.