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Measuring Jerusalem: The Palestine Exploration Fund and British Interests in the Holy Land. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-7185-0220-1. Chapman, Rupert, "British Archaeology and the Holy Land in the 19th Century: sources and a framework for study' ", Britain and the Holy Land 1800–1914; Goren, Haim; Faehndrich, Jutta; Schelhaas, Bruno (28 February 2017).
Palestine 1843: Hughes map: William Hughes: Shows the Ottoman administrative districts in detail, made for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Hughes had been producing popular maps of Palestine for almost a decade, notably in his 1840 Illuminated Atlas of Scripture geography. [53] Palestine 1849: Lynch map: William F. Lynch
British victory: Palestine Emergency (1939–1948) United Kingdom: Yishuv: Yishuv victory [32] Hand over to the United Nations; British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine; Civil war in Mandatory Palestine begins; S-Plan 16 January 1939 – March 1940 United Kingdom: Irish Republican Army: British victory [33] British victory
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
The majority of the work of the survey was carried out by the Royal Engineers.In addition to the extensive maps, the Palestine Exploration Fund published three copious volumes of the field work conducted by Conder and Kitchener, known as The Survey of Western Palestine (Memoirs of the Tography, Orography, Hydrgraphy, and Archæology), wherein are detailed accounts of every hill range, stream ...
The maps of Palestine were first published in 1841 to accompany the first edition of Biblical Researches in Palestine, and published again in 1856 to accompany the second edition. [2] It has been described as the most important element of Robinson's publication: "Perhaps, Robinson’s most important accomplishment, however, was the drawing of ...
Pages in category "19th-century maps and globes" ... 1840–41 Royal Engineers maps of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria; ... War of the Rebellion Atlas;
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 ]