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Palestine

فلسطين \ ארץ ישראל

العربية [1]فلسطين سلطة وطنية فلسطينية

فلسطين هي جزء طبيعي من بلاد الشام ومنطقة تاريخية تقع شرق البحر الأبيض المتوسط تصل بين جزئي العالم العربي الأسيوي والأفريقي بوقوعها وشبه جزيرة سيناء عند نقطة إلتقاء القارتين ، حدودها ما بين نهر الأردن والبحر المتوسط. وتحتوي هذه المنطقة على عدد كبير من المدن الهامة وعلى رأسها مدينتي القدس وبيت لحم وحيفا. لسلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية هي حكم ذاتي فلسطيني كان نتاج اتفاق اوسلو، وأنشئت بقرار من المجلس المركزي الفلسطيني في دورته المنعقدة في 10 اكتوبر 1993 في تونس، ويعول عليها أن تكون نواة الدولة الفلسطينية المقبلة والتي طالما حلم بها الشعب الفلسطيني. تقوم السلطة الفلسطينية حالياً بعدة مهام من أهمها:

עברית ארץ ישראל הרשות שפלסטינית

פלשתינה הוא כינויה הלועזי של ארץ ישראל, המגדיר את האזור המקראי שכיום הוא מחולק לשלושה: מדינת ישראל, הגדה המערבית שבשטחיה ישנם אזורים שמוחזקים בריבונות ממשלת הרשות הפליסטינית, ורצועת עזה שבה הקים החמאס מערכת ממשלתית. לאזור יש גבול דרומי-מערבי עם חצי-האי סיני המצרי, גבול מזרחי עם ממלכת ירדן, גבול צפוני עם לבנון, וגבול צפוני-מזרחי עם סוריה.

English Palestine - Palestine

Palestine is the name of an historical and geographical region, nowadays divided between ► Israel[2], the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has control over part of the West Bank, and Hamas has control over the Gaza Strip. Maps of the PNA are included in this entry. Gaza borders ► Israel and ► Egypt, the West Bank borders Israel and ► Jordan.


Short name Palestine
Official name Palestine
Status Historic territory
Location Western Asia
Capital Idem
Population Idem inhabitants
Area Idem km²
Major language(s) idem
Major religion(s) idem
More information Palestine, Geography of Palestine, History of Palestine and Politics of Palestine
More images Palestine - Palestine (Category).

In Arabic

General maps

Map showing the Palestine territories
Map of Gaza Strip
Map of West Bank and East Jerusalem
Palestinian National Authority electoral districts (as of 2006)
Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Palestine, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Palestine.

Fertile Crescent
Akkadian Empire around 2000 BCE
The Hittite Empire (red) at the height of its power in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green)
Hittite Empire
Possible Jewish Exodus according to the Bible text. See also Stations list
Levant around 830 BCE.

██ Kingdom of Judah

██ Kingdom of Israel

██ Philistine city-states

██ Phoenician states

██ Kingdom of Ammon

██ Kingdom of Edom

██ Kingdom of Aram-Damascus

██ Aramean tribes

██ Arubu tribes

██ Nabatu tribes

██ Assyrian Empire

██ Kingdom of Moab

The region in the 9th century BCE.
The Levant in 800 BCE
The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Kingdom of Edom 600 BC
Early Israel
Israel and Iudeae (in Italian)
Kingdom of Israel (in Italian)
David's Kingdom at the time of his death,according to the Bible text
The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
The Chaldean Empire around 600 BCE)
The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander
Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
Hellenistic successor states:

██ Kingdom of Ptolemy

██ Kingdom of Cassander

██ Kingdom of Lysimachus

██ Kingdom of Seleucus

██ Epirus

Other states:

██ Carthage

██ Rome

██ Greek colonies

Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
Image:Phoenician colonies.jpg Phoenician colonies
Kingdoms under Herod the Great, highlighted in red
Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
Palestine in the Roman Empire
Iudaea in the first century
Decapolis
Roman conquest of Minor Asia
Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
Roman conquest of Minor Asia
Roman Republic 100 BCE
Map of the Roman Empire in 50
The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;

██ 133 BC

██ 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)

██ AD 14 (death of Augustus)

██ 117 (maximum extension)

Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
Roman Empire in 117
Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarch zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms.
The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.

██ Western Roman Empire

██ Eastern Roman Empire

Division of the Roman Empire in 406
Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire, c.476
Eastern Roman Empire
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Byzantine Empire 550
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of the Caliphs
Caliphate around 750
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
Seljuq Dinasty around 1000
The Crusader States
A political map of the w:en:Near East in 1135 CE
Christian States in the Levant
Ayyubid dynasty in 1189
The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566
Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
Map of Palestine 1900 (in Russian)
British mandate of Palestine
Palestine and Transjordan
Palestine 1922
Peel Commission Partition Plan A, July 1937
Jewish zones in 1947
Jewish settlements in 1947
United Nations Partition Plan 1947
United Nations Partition Plan 1947
Israel 1947-1949 (in French)
1948 Arab-Israeli War
June 1948
October 1948
October 1948
Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949
Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 (detail)
Suez Crisis 1956: Conquest of Sinai
1967 Six-Day War: Battle of Golan Heights
Six-Day War: The Jordan salient
Six-Day War: Conquest of Sinai 7-8 June
1973 Yom Kippur war 1973: Golan heights theater
Yom Kippur war
Yom Kippur war
Image:Jom kippur war.jpg Yom Kippur war (German)
Israel and the disputed territories after 1979
The West Bank Barrier in february 2005
The West Bank Barrier in may 2005

Other maps

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

  • The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
  • Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
  • Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
  • For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
  • The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
  • The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
  1. Romanization: Filastīn - As-Sulta Al-Wataniyya Al-Filastīniyya.
  2. Most of the historical maps in this entry and in the entry on ► Israel are identical.

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