History of Palestine (region)

Moshav (Hebrew: מוֹשָׁב‎‎, plural מוֹשָׁבִים moshavim, lit. settlement, village) is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second wave of aliyah.

The Arab Kingdom of Syria (Arabic: المملكة العربية السورية‎‎, al-Mamlakah al-‘Arabīyah as-Sūrīyah) was the first modern Arab state to come into existence but only lasted a little over four months (8 March–24 July 1920).

Metula (Hebrew: מְטֻלָּה) is a town in the Northern District of Israel.

The Treaty of Sèvres (Traité de Sèvres in French), signed on 10 August 1920) was one of a series of treaties that the nations constituting the Central Powers signed subsequent to their defeat in World War I.

Hilarion (291–371) was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was an Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 612 BC.

The Nabataean Kingdom (Arabic: المملكة النبطية‎‎), also named Nabatea, was a political state of the Arab Nabataeans during classical antiquity.

A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.

The territorial possessions of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta are today limited to its premises holding status of extraterritoriality in Rome and Malta.

Modi'in Illit (Hebrew: מוֹדִיעִין עִלִּית; Arabic: موديعين عيليت‎‎, lit. "Upper Modi'in") is a Haredi Israeli settlement and city in the West Bank, situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The All-Palestine Government (Arabic: حكومة عموم فلسطين‎‎ Ḥukūmat ‘Umūm Filasṭīn) was established by the Arab League on 22 September 1948 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province (Latin: Provincia Arabia) or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the 2nd century; it consisted of the former Nabataean kingdom in Jordan, southern Levant, the Sinai Peninsula and northwestern Arabian peninsula.

The World Islamic Congress convened in Jerusalem from the 7 December until 1:30 p.

The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew: מַמְלֶכֶת יְהוּדָה‎‎, Mamlekhet Yehuda) was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant.

(This article is about the history of Gaza City. For history of the Gaza Strip, see History of the Gaza Strip.) The known history of Gaza spans 4,000 years.

("Partition of Palestine" redirects here. For the Partition of Palestine into Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, see 1949 Armistice Agreements.) The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.

The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية‎‎), also known as the "Saudi Initiative", is a 10 sentence proposal for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 Arab League summit.

Coele-Syria, Coele Syria, Coelesyria (Greek: Κοίλη Συρία, Koílē Syría), also rendered as Coelosyria and Celesyria, otherwise Hollow Syria (Latin: Cava Syria, German: Hohl Syrien), was a region of Syria in classical antiquity.

Umar's Assurance, or al-ʿUhda al-ʿUmariyya (Arabic: العهدة العمرية‎‎), is an assurance of safety given by the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab to the people of Aelia, the Roman name for Jerusalem.

Palæstina Prima or Palaestina I was a Byzantine province from 390, until the 7th century.

Bahjat al-Muhaisen (1927-10 April 2007) was a Royal Jordanian Land Force officer who served in significant infantry commands during his career.

List of locations in Jerusalem sometimes described by the term East Jerusalem:(Further information: List of places in Jerusalem)

The following is a list of United Nations resolutions that concern both Israel and Palestine and bordering states such as Lebanon.

The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem is the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, which is a part of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and The Middle East, and based at St.

A Wing and a Prayer is a 2015 PBS documentary by Boaz Dvir.

Lajjun (Arabic: اللجّون‎‎, al-Lajjûn) was a Palestinian Arab village located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) in Mandatory Palestine, northwest of Jenin and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of the remains of the biblical city of Megiddo.

Muslim history in the Palestine region began in the 630s with the Early Muslim conquests.

The Israeli Military Governorate was a military government established following the Six Day War in June 1967, in order to govern the civilian population of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.

Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بلاد الشام‎‎, "the country of Syria") was a Rashidun, Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphate province in the region of Syria.

Auja al-Hafir, also Auja, was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai.

Palæstina Secunda or Palaestina II was a Byzantine province from 390, until its conquest by the Muslim armies in 634-636.

The history of the State of Palestine describes the creation and evolution of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Palaestina Salutaris or Palaestina Tertia was a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) province, which covered the area of the Negev (or Edom), Sinai (except the north western coast) and south-west of Transjordan, south of the Dead Sea.

Bayt Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين‎‎, also transliterated Beit Jibrin; Hebrew: בית גוברין), was a Palestinian Arab village located 21 kilometers (13 mi) northwest of the city of Hebron.

The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) was a joint British and French military administration over Levantine and Mesopotamian provinces of the former Ottoman Empire between 1918–20, set up following the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I.

The occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt occurred between 1948 and October 1956 and again from March 1957 to June 1967.

Over recorded history, there have been many names of the Levant, a large area in the Middle East.

Palestine Railways was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Palestine from 1920 until 1948.

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem (Arabic: القدس الشرقية‎‎, Hebrew: מזרח ירושלים‎‎) is the sector of Jerusalem that was not part of Israeli-held West Jerusalem at the end of the 1948–1949 Arab–Israeli War.

Prince Rashed Al Khuzai (1850–1957 Arabic: الأمير راشد الخزاعي‎‎, his full name being Prince Rashed bin Prince Khuzai bin Durgham bin Fayad bin Prince Mustapha bin Salameh Al Fraihat) was a Jordanian nationalist, an influential Sunni Islamic political leader and struggler in British Mandate of Palestine.

Philistia (Hebrew: פלשת‎‎, Pleshet) was, according to Joshua 13:3 and 1 Samuel 6:17, a Pentapolis in south-western Levant, comprising Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews in Roman and Byzantine Palestine in the early first millennium.

The Battle of el Buqqar Ridge took place on 27 October 1917, when one infantry regiment and cavalry troops of the Yildirim Army Group, attacked the 8th Mounted Brigade of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) in the last days of the stalemate in Southern Palestine during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I.

The Battle of Nebi Samwil, (17–24 November 1917), was fought during the decisive British Empire victory at the Battle of Jerusalem between the forces of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, in the First World War.

Maiuma or Maiumas was an ancient town near Gaza, Palestine.

The Source is a historical novel by James A.

Palestine: A Policy is a history book by British civil servant and historian, Albert Montefiore Hyamson, which provides a history of the idea and practise of Zionism from the Eighteenth Century and the British Mandate for Palestine until 1942.

Al-Nabi Rubin (Arabic: النبي روبين‎‎, transliteation: an-Nabî Rûbîn) was a Palestinian village in central Palestine, located 14.

The following is a list of rulers of Gaza.

The Demographic history of Palestine refers to the study of the historical population of the region of Palestine, which approximately corresponds to modern Israel and the Palestinian territories, and in some sources also western parts of Jordan.

Edward Keith-Roach CBE (Born 1885 Gloucester, England - died 1954).

The Civil Administration (Hebrew: המנהל האזרחי‎‎, ha-Minhal ha-ʿEzraḥi) is the Israeli governing body that operates in the West Bank.