the Bedouin for their Ottoman sympathies.

1527 to 1610

In 1527, the first survey of Egypt under the Ottomans was made, after the official copy of the former registers had perished by fire; this new survey did not come into use until 1605. Egyptian lands were divided into four classes: the sultan's domain, fiefs, land for the maintenance of the army, and lands settled on religious foundations.

The constant changes in the government seem to have caused the army to get out of control at an early period of the Ottoman occupation,

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