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World War I left Palestine, especially the countryside, deeply impoverished. [31] The Ottoman and then the Mandate authorities levied high taxes on farming and agricultural produce and during the 1920s and 1930s this together with a fall in prices, cheap imports, natural disasters and paltry harvests all contributed to the increasing ...
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Jerusalem 1:10,000 and 1:2,500 maps (see here): In 1936 a 1:2,500 map of the Old City of Jerusalem was published, the first detailed map since the 1865 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. [28] This was followed by 1:5,000 provisional plans of Jerusalem and its environs, which were reduced to 1:10,000 scale for general printing.
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 ]
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 ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
Since 1998, football's world governing body FIFA have recognized the Palestine national football team as a separate entity. On 26 October 2008 Palestine played their first match at home, a 1–1 draw against Jordan in the West Bank. In December 2010-January 2011 Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay recognized a Palestinian state.
Flag map of the world from 1930, nine years before World War II. Wars ... 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 – April 1, ...