Its territory consisted of the part of northern Palestine spanning the Jezreel Valley (then known as 'Marj ibn Amir'), Mount Carmel, and the coastland between Haifa and Atlit.
From its establishment through the late 17th century, it was dominated by the Turabay dynasty, whose members served as its governors for most of this period.
This iqta consisted of the nahiyas (subdistricts) of Atlit and Marj Bani Amir (the modern Jezreel Valley).
The historian Harold Rhode speculates the administratively separate Iqta was established to reward or pacify the Turabay family, the leaders of the Bedouin tribe of Banu Haritha who dominated the area and allied with the Ottomans during their conquest of the Mamluk empire.
The crucial Damascus–Cairo highway and the coastal Via Maris passed through the territory which the Ottomans "set aside" for the Turabays, who were entrusted with securing the two roads.