Obviously a Jewish city why do they let it be run by the PLO
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According to
Ottoman tax records, Christians made up roughly 60% of the population in the early 16th century, while the Christian and
Muslim populations became equal by the middle of that century. However, there were no Muslim inhabitants counted by the end of the century, with a recorded population of 287 adult male taxpayers. Christians, like all non-Muslims throughout the Ottoman Empire, were required to pay the
jizya tax.<a href="
Bethlehem - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>55<span>]</span></a> In 1867, an American visitor describes the town as having a population of 3,000 to 4,000, of whom about 100 were
Protestant, 300 were Muslim and "the remainder belonging to the Latin and Greek Churches with a few Armenians."<a href="
Bethlehem - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>89<span>]</span></a> Another report from the same year puts the Christian population at 3,000, with an additional 50 Muslims.<a href="
Bethlehem - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>96<span>]</span></a> An 1885 source put the population at approximately 6,000 of "principally Christians, Latins and Greeks" with no Jewish inhabitants.<a href="
Bethlehem - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>97<span>]</span></a>
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