Jerusalem

====Jewish immigration to Palestine====
During the reign of Sultan [[Bayezid II]] (1481–1512), the gates of Ottoman Turkey were opened to the [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|Jews expelled]] from [[Spain]], and in the days of Sultan [[Selim I]], they were allowed to enter the territories he conquered, including [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref name="Ben-Yosef">{{cite book |author-last=Ben-Yosef |author-first=Sefi |author-link=:he:ספי בן-יוסף |editor=Ben-Yosef, Sefi |contribution=A historical-settlement review |title=Israel Guide – Judaea (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) |volume=9 |publisher=Keter Publishing House |location=Jerusalem |year=n.d. |page=50 |language=he |oclc=745203905}}</ref> Rabbi [[Moses Bassola]], who visited Palestine in 1521–1522, testified that, largely due to this immigration, the Jewish community in Jerusalem grew and the deportees from Spain became the majority of the Jewish population in Jerusalem (which at that time numbered about 300 families).<ref name="Ben-Yosef"/>

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File:מגדל דוד-חן חנה נחום.jpg|[[Tower of David]] citadel and the Ottoman walls
File:Ben Zakai.jpg|[[Four Sephardic Synagogues|Ben-Zakai]] synagogue, photo taken in 1893
File:Mishkenot Sha'ananim 1.jpg|Guesthouse in [[Mishkenot Sha'ananim]], the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the [[Old City of Jerusalem]] (1860), on a hill directly across from [[Mount Zion]]
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