Palestine (region)

Palestine (Greek: ?????????? Palaistin?, Latin: Syria Palæstina, Hebrew: ??????? Palestina,

British Mandate

Main article: British Mandate of Palestine

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Formal use of the English word "Palestine" returned with the British Mandate. During this period , the name "Eretz Yisrael" (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל) was also part of the official name of the territory.

Related Topics:
British Mandate - Eretz Yisrael - Hebrew

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Between 1920 and 1922, Palestine was defined by the San Remo Conference as the area bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a short stretch of Red Sea coastline between the latter two. These borders include all of present-day Israel, the West Bank. the Gaza Strip, and Jordan. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/pal-mandate-sremo-1922.gifhttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/palmanda.htm. However, the final text left the borders unspecified (note in particular Article 25.) After Transjordan was split off from Palestine in 1922, the term Palestine referred to the segment west of the Jordan river http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/pal-transjrdn-1922.gif (see History of Palestine, History of Jordan). Even before the Mandate came into legal effect in 1922 (), British terminology applied the word Palestine to the part west of the Jordan River and Trans-Jordan (or Transjordania) to the part east of the Jordan River. This terminology was applied consistently during the Mandate period and it is difficult to find any official documents that use any name other than "Palestine and Trans-Jordan" when referring to the whole area of the Mandate. Nevertheless, the fact that "Palestine" was once considered to include lands on the east side of the Jordan River continues even today to have significance in political discourse.

Related Topics:
Red Sea - Israel - West Bank - Gaza Strip - Jordan - Transjordan - Jordan river - History of Palestine - History of Jordan - 1922

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Between 1922 and 1947, the term "Palestine" referred to the geographical region bordered by (Trans-)Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean Sea http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/pal-transjrdn-1922.gif http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/images/israel03.jpg.

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