Who are the indigenous?
There are villages populated wholly by settlers from other portions
of the Turkish Empire in the 19th century. There are villages of
Bosnians, Circassians, and Egyptians. -Parkes, James William, History of
the Peoples of Palestine, Hammondsworth, Great Britain, 1970, p. 212.
There are very large contingents from the Mediterranean countries,
especially Armenia, Greece, and Italy, Turkomen settlers, a fairly large
Afghan colony, Motawila, immigrants from Persia, tribes of Kurds, a
Bosnian colony, Circassian settlements, a large Algerian element,
Sudanese… -Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1911 ed.
[Ibrahim Pasha, the 1831 Egyptian conquerer of Palestine] “left
behind him permanent colonies of Egyptians at Besian, Nablus, Irbid,
Acre, and Jaffa. Into Jaffa alone, “at least 2,000 people have been
imported.” -Ernst Frankenstein, Justice For My People, London, Nicholson
and Watson, 1943, p. 127.