 There were also Jews of Baghdadi origin who claimed British nationality through family connections in India.Some information is obtainable from travellers who visited Damascus during the 19th century.Alfred von Kremer, in "Mittel-Syrien und Damaskus" (1853), states that in the municipal government of the city two Christians and one Jew had places; the number of Jews was 4,000, only 1,000 of whom, however, paid the poll-tax; the last Karaite had died there some fifty years previously, the Karaite synagogue being then sold to the Greeks, who turned it into a church.