Episode 1 of 1

1844 Edict of Toleration

When
1844
Where
Ottoman Empire
Part of
Ottoman Edict of Toleration

The Ottoman Empire passed an edict removing capital punishments for apostasy, identified as the beginning of the Zionist process.

In 1844, the Ottoman Empire issued an Edict of Toleration. This decree removed capital punishments for apostasy, marking the beginning of the Zionist process of Jewish diaspora return to the Holy Land. The edict took place during the 19th century, a period in which the Ottoman state became more powerful and organised internally as a new Ottoman identity took hold.

Sources

  1. Edict of toleration Wikipedia
  2. Ottoman Empire Wikipedia

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.