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Following the First World War and the occupation of the region by the British, the principal Allied and associated powers drafted the mandate, which was formally approved by the League of Nations in 1922. Great Britain administered Palestine on behalf of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1948, a period referred to as the "British Mandate".
The first medieval Christian world map of relevance to the cartography of Palestine. [22] This copy from 1060 is thought to be the closest to the original out the 14 surviving manuscripts. [22] no regional name shown: 952: Istakhri map: Istakhri: Drawn in 952 AD, copy from 1298. [23] no regional name shown: 995: Cotton map: unknown: Known as ...
1:250,000 administrative maps (see here): the 1:250,000 administrative map, in three sheets, followed the 1:100,000 map "Palestine Index to Villages & Settlements" (see here), an administrative map without relief, usually on a single-sheet 1:250,000 scale, was often used as a base for overprinted thematic maps. [27]
Mandatory Palestine [a] [5] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant . [ 6 ]
Within three years, about 10,000 dunums, an old land measurement equivalent to acres, had been acquired in the Marj Bin Amer region of northern Palestine, forcing out 60,000 local farmers to ...
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1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "1930s in Mandatory Palestine" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 ...
Palestine maps stored at Wikimedia Commons - contains a few usable historical maps. Palestine maps at Passia. 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 ...