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Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Part of a series on the History of Palestine Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Achaemenid Empire Classical period Hellenistic Palestine (Seleucus ...
This resource includes an inaccurate (but ubiquitous) map of the Palestine Mandate territory but an otherwise useful collection. Palestine maps at Palestine Remembered. Some useful high resolution maps; an unparalleled resource on Arab villages before 1948. Maps, from NIL; Geopolitical Status Map from the ARIJ, showing the Oslo accords land ...
This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to an end. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian occupation, and the West Bank was ruled by Jordan, before both territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since then there ...
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
1948 May 14 – Israeli Declaration of Independence: Jewish leadership in the region of Palestine announces the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. [191] 1948 May 14–1949 January 7 – The 1948 Arab–Israeli War: a large-scale war between Israel and five Arab countries and the Palestinian-Arabs.
Overview of the demographics of the region of Palestine from the 1st century CE through 1947 (in thousands) Year Source Jewish Pagan Samar-itan [1] Chris-tian Muslim Total Driving events 0–100 (1st c.) CE: Bachi [2] Majority... n/a 1,000– 2,500 [3] 66–74 CE: First Jewish–Roman War, Roman Empire defeats Jews in 70 CE.
David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948. On May 14, 1948, one day before the British Mandate expired, Ben-Gurion declared "the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel". The declaration was stated to be "by virtue of our natural and historic right and ...
The Survey of Palestine was the government department responsible for the survey and mapping of Palestine during the British mandate period.. The survey department was established in 1920 in Jaffa, and moved to the outskirts of Tel Aviv in 1931. [1]