Resettlement the First of the Algerian Immigrant Groups under the leadership of Ahmed İbn Salim in the Aclun and Safed Regions in Levant -1848-1849

Abstract

This study covered one of the most important Algerian immegrations to the Levent after the French colonization of Algeria, exactly after the fall of the Organised Resistance in 1847 AD, this immigration is consiered the first mass imigration to the Levent, while it was accompanied by a collection of surrounding circumstances and reasons that led not just to it’s occurrence and continuation, but to dangerous developments to be reckoned with after that. And as they traveled from the Ottoman property to another Ottoman property as the Ottoman documents show, the immigrants had a special welcoming from the Ottoman local authorities and the acceptance of the central authority, and in this frame and according to the treatment that they were welcomed with by the Ottoman officials this study will clarify the the essential procedures related to their settlement in the land, which included housing and offering financial aid after having guarantees that they will keep the Ottoman dependency and abide by the laws of the state.