The Nablus Sanjak was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917). It was administratively part of the Damascus Eyalet until 1864 when it became part of Syria Vilayet and then the Beirut Vilayet in 1888.
Palestine with the Hauran and the adjacent districts, William Hughes 1843
Ottoman Syria refers to divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of Syria, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.
Mosque at Latakia, from Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe, in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean islands (1810) illustrated by Luigi Mayer (1755–1803).
Town of Bethlehem, Ottoman Syria from an 1810 illustration by Luigi Mayer.
Tartus in Ottoman Syria, from an 1810 illustration by Luigi Mayer.
1696 (Jaillot), showing Eyalets