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INHABITANTS
553
4,111; Orthodox Greeks, 3,282; United Syrians, 1,600;
Latins, 1,446 ; Foreigners, 737; Druses, 653; United
Armenians, 530 ; Protestants, 210 ; Gregorian Armenians,
201. These figures are here cited as they serve to give some
general indication of the proportions of the various sects of
which the population of Galilee was composed in 1896.
Towns and Villages. —Galilee is full of villages, the mean
population of which is about 500. A village of 1,500 inhabi
tants is considered a very large one and some of the villages
have as few as 50 adult inhabitants. The largest towns in
the whole of Galilee, with the exception of Safed and possibly
of Nazareth, contain a smaller population than 15,000. The
following are the most populous centres :
Safed. Pop. variously estimated at 20,000-25,000, of whom,
according to Trietsch, 1 16,000 Moslems and 8,000 Jews.
Dr. Masterman gives : Jews, 11,000, a considerable number
of whom are foreign subjects (2,500 Austrian, 1,000 French,
600 Persian, 150 British, and 100 American) ; a few Christians
(some 400 Greek Catholics, a few families of Orthodox Greeks,
and a few Protestants); and some Kurds and Algerians. Capt.
Anderson, R.A.M.C., says the following is probably a correct
estimate of the chief communities : Jews, 12,000 ; Moslems,
8,000 ; Christians, 300. About three-fourths of the Jews, he
says, are ‘ Yiddish ’ speaking and come from Poland, Russia,
and Austria and the remaining fourth are of Spanish origin ;
the Christians are mostly Greek Catholics. The W. O. Hand
book on Northern Palestine and Southern Syria, April 9,1918,
gives: Safed, pop. 20,000: including 7,000 Moslems, 400
Greeks, and a few Protestants ; the remainder, Jews.
Nazareth. Pop., according to Trietsch, 12,000 (1909), of
whom 7,000 Christians and 4,000 Moslems ; pop., according
to Ruppin, 20,000, of whom 10,000 Christians.
‘Akka. Pop., according to Trietsch, 11,000 (1909), of whom
2,400 Christians and the rest mostly Moslems of a fanatical
disposition ; total pop., according to Ruppin, 12,000.
Sur (Tyre). Pop. variously estimated at 6,000-8,000, of
1 Levante Handbuch , Davis Trietsch, 1914.