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The Palestine mandate was approved on 22 July 1922 at a private meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at St. James Palace in London, [26] giving the British formal international recognition of the position they had held de facto in the region since the end of 1917 in Palestine and since 1920–21 in Transjordan. [26]
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]
Description: Map of the 1923-1948 British mandate of Palestine containing the corresponding flag of the British mandate.Note that the Dead Sea is more or less sliced down the middle, while the entire Lake Kinneret / Sea of Galilee is included, in accordance with the Mandate boundaries.
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 ]
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).
In 1922, the League of Nations recognised the British Mandate to rule Palestine under the jurisdiction of Samuel, now high commissioner, who was instrumental in enacting at least 100 legal ...
The districts and sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the districts varied over time, as did their subdivision into sub-districts.
English: Outline map of Palestine (as a region or historic entity) with the flag of Palestine displayed. This image should not be used where File:Flag map of Palestine.svg would be more appropriate, due to the politically-charged nature of considering the entire Palestinian region (land of Palestine, or land of Israel) "Palestinian".