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Isolating the Threat: The Ottoman Quarantine System in Gaza and Al-Khalil during the Nineteenth Century

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Journal of Urban History

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Abstract

Journal of Urban History, Ahead of Print.
In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire established a centralized quarantine system to control epidemic diseases across its territories, including Anatolia, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East. This article examines the quarantine ...