Ras Karkar
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Ras Karkar is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 11 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank.
Ras Karkar castle
The peasants' revolt in Palestine was a rebellion against Egyptian conscription and taxation policies in Palestine between May and August 1834. While rebel ranks consisted mostly of the local peasantr
Ras Karkar
…the great power and wealth held by its owners at the time. The chief Sheikh of the Simhan family was Isma'il, who was killed by Ibrahim Pasha in the 1834 uprising. After Isma'il, Hasan es-Sa'id and Mohammah ibn Isma'il became the rulers. Edward Robinson passed by in 1838, and described the place as "a castle…
Ibrahim Pasha led the Egyptian army in the Levant
The citadel in Jerusalem was besieged and eventually breached by rebel forces
Encampment of Ibrahim Pasha, near Jaffa. Print by W. H. Bartlett, from 1838
Nablus, by W. C. P. Medlycott, in H. B. Tristram, 1865.