Native Name: | قضاء صفد |
Conventional Long Name: | Safad District |
Common Name: | Safad |
Subdivision: | District |
Nation: | Mandatory Palestine |
Capital: | Safad |
Today: | ![]() |
Year Start: | 1920 |
Year End: | 1948 |
P1: | Acre Sanjak |
Flag P1: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire (Thicker Crescent).svg |
S1: | Northern District (Israel) |
Flag S1: | Flag of Israel.svg |
Stat Year1: | 1904 |
Stat Pop1: | 22715 |
Stat Year2: | 1916 |
Stat Pop2: | 32137 |
Stat Year3: | 1922 |
Stat Pop3: | 22790 |
Stat Year4: | 1931 |
Stat Pop4: | 39713 |
Stat Year5: | 1945 |
Stat Area5: | 696 |
Stat Pop5: | 53620 |
The Safad District (he|מחוז צפת; ar|link=no|قضاء صفد) was a district in the Mandatory Palestine. Its capital was the city of Safad.
Based on various censuses conducted by the governing authorities of Palestine, adherents of the different religious communities in the district numbered approximately as follows:[1] [2] [3]
Religion | 1904 | 1908 | 1916 | 1922 | 1931 | 1945 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Islam | 16,179 | 18,892 | 22,747 | 18,306 | 33,975 | 44,510 | |
Judaism | 3,671 | 4,146 | 6,079 | 3,844 | 3,678 | 6,700 | |
Christianity | 2,765 | 3,075 | 3,311 | 1,253 | 1,575 | 1,630 |