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The cartography of the region of Palestine, also known as cartography of the Holy Land and cartography of the Land of Israel, [1] is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps of the region of Palestine from ancient times until the rise of modern surveying techniques.
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 ...
In early 1948, the British Mandate appointed a temporary Director General of the Survey Department for the impending Jewish State; this became the Survey of Israel. [3] The maps produced by the survey have been widely used in "Palestinian refugee cartography" by scholars documenting the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight; [4] notably in ...
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 ...
Satellite image of the Palestine region from 2003. The timeline of the Palestine region is a timeline of major events in the history of Palestine. For more details on the history of Palestine see History of Palestine. In cases where the year or month is uncertain, it is marked with a slash, for example 636/7 and January/February.
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
This image shows the oldest surviving copy of oldest known map of the region of Palestine / Israel. It is from Ptolemy's 4th Asia map, and was a revision of a now-lost atlas by Marinus of Tyre (note the proximity of Tyre to Palestine). The large red letters in the center say in Greek: Παλαιστινης or Palaistinis.
It established formal diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992. China’s official maps, as seen in an online catalogue from its standard maps services system, name both Israel and Palestine ...