• The Department of Antiquities was a department of the British administration of Mandatory Palestine from 1920 to 1948 that was in charge of the protection...
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    Partition Plan for Palestine, the 1947–1949 Palestine war ended with Mandatory Palestine divided among Israel, the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank and...
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    establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, and captured it from the Ottomans. The League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over...
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    Dimitri Baramki (category Academic staff of the American University of Beirut)
    During his years in Palestine, Baramki published many articles, mainly in the Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine (QDAP) journal, on...
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    saw Britain occupying Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, where it set up Mandatory Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations. During this period...
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    that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in the British-ruled Mandatory Palestine, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s...
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    Israel (redirect from State of Israel)
    Jewish homeland in Palestine and gained British support. After World War I, Britain occupied the region and established Mandatory Palestine in 1920. Increased...
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  • Antiquities of Mandatory Palestine, which was succeeded by the: Israel Antiquities Authority, known as the Department of Antiquities until 1990 Palestinian...
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    and Palestine. Before 1946, the Department of Antiquities of the British administration of Mandatory Palestine was jointly staffed by citizens of the...
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  • presence of a mosque. Records from the Mandatory Antiquities department also make note of a mosque with a mihrab. Khirbet Jarra'a is the site of Gerraa...
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    Dictionary of Jesus by Daniel J. Harrington, 2010; ISBN 0-8108-7667-1, pg. 32 Jewish Antiquities XV.331ff; The Jewish War, I.408ff Antiquities of the Jews...
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  • Tzenifim Yotvata Eilat The Survey of Palestine was the government department responsible for the survey and mapping of Palestine during the British mandate period...
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    Rafah (redirect from Rafah, Palestine)
    capital of the Rafah Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171...
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  • Walter Abel Heurtley (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandate for Palestine, a position he held until 1939, and ended his career as bursar of The Oratory School. Heurtley...
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    termination of Mandatory Palestine . On May 15, 1948, the Transjordanian Arab Legion entered from the east what had been the Palestinian part of the Palestinian...
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    Al-Bassa (category 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine)
    Arab village in the Mandatory Palestine's Acre Subdistrict. It was situated close to the Lebanese border, 19 kilometers (12 mi) north of the district capital...
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    Hunin (category District of Safad)
    Galilee Panhandle part of Mandatory Palestine, close to the Lebanese border. It was the second largest village in the district of Safed, but was depopulated...
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    chattel slavery existed in the region of Palestine until the 20th-century. The slave trade to Ottoman Palestine officially stopped in the 1870s, when...
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    Jaffa (redirect from Yaffa, Palestine)
    journalism in Mandatory Palestine in the 20th century, where Falastin and Al-Difa' newspapers were established. After the 1948 Palestine War, most of its Arab...
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    Tel Qasile ostraca (category Collection of the Israel Museum)
    their discovery, as neither finder reported them to the Palestine Department of Antiquities. Having put the Beth-Horon sherd up for sale in 1951, Hoff...
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    Chorazin (category Gospel of Matthew)
    village established at the site of the ancient village and depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Palmach's...
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    El Wad (category Caves of Israel)
    conducted a trial excavation at El Wad on behalf of the Department of Antiquities of Mandatory Palestine to assess the area's archaeological value. Lambert's...
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    Amin al-Husseini (category Mandatory Palestine people of World War II)
    Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their...
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    Acre, Israel (redirect from Palestine Acre)
    until the rule of Zahir al-Umar in the 18th century. In 1947, Acre formed part of Mandatory Palestine and had a population of 13,560, of whom 10,930 were...
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    Magdala (category Ancient synagogues in the Land of Israel)
    built-up (urban) area. During the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, after the Arab quarter of Tiberias was taken by Jewish forces and its inhabitants...
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    fell to British forces during World War I, becoming a part of Mandatory Palestine. As a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt administered the newly...
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    with a Christian population. The totals by denomination for all of Mandatory Palestine were: Greek Orthodox 33,369, Syriac Orthodox (Jacobite) 813, Latin...
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    Shmuel Sambursky (category German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine)
    professor, and author during the respective epochs of his country —Germany, Mandatory Palestine, and Israel. Sambursky was born in Königsberg, Germany...
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    Hittin (category District of Tiberias)
    (1936). "Evliya Tshelebi's Travels in Palestine, III". The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine. 5: 69–73. Pococke, 1745, vol 2, p. 67...
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    Stephan Hanna Stephan (category Arab people in Mandatory Palestine)
    Jerusalem, he worked for the Mandatory Palestine authorities, first in the Treasury, and then in the Department of Antiquities. Stephan was born in Beit...
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