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1900
The Swedish poet Selma Lagerlöf visits Eretz Israel and writes her book «Jerusalem» for which she receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The total population of Palestine is between 400'000 and 500'000. Jews make up 10 percent of this.
The Ottomanic authorities agree to autonomous Austrian, German, Italian and Russian mail services.
The Turks start with the building of a new town: Be'er Sheva.
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