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Palestine
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فلسطين \ ארץ ישראל |
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[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:
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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.
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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.
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| 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). |
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In Arabic
General maps
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Map showing the Palestine territories |
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Map of Gaza Strip |
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Map of West Bank and East Jerusalem |
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Palestinian National Authority electoral districts (as of 2006) |
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.
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The Hittite Empire (red) at the height of its power in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green) |
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Hittite Empire |
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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
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The region in the 9th century BCE. |
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The Levant in 800 BCE |
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Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire |
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Kingdom of Edom 600 BC |
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Early Israel |
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Israel and Iudeae (in Italian) |
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Kingdom of Israel (in Italian) |
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David's Kingdom at the time of his death,according to the Bible text |
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The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
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Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
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Kingdoms under Herod the Great, highlighted in red |
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present |
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Iudaea in the first century |
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Roman conquest of Minor Asia |
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present |
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Roman conquest of Minor Asia |
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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)
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Camps of the Roman Legions in 80 |
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Division of the Roman Empire in 406 |
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Eastern Roman Empire |
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus |
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus |
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
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Caliphate around 750 |
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A political map of the w:en:Near East in 1135 CE |
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Christian States in the Levant |
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The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190 |
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Growth of the Ottoman Empire |
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Growth of the Ottoman Empire |
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Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683 |
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Map of Palestine 1900 (in Russian) |
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British mandate of Palestine |
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Palestine and Transjordan |
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Palestine 1922 |
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Jewish zones in 1947 |
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Jewish settlements in 1947 |
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United Nations Partition Plan 1947 |
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United Nations Partition Plan 1947 |
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Israel 1947-1949 (in French) |
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June 1948 |
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October 1948 |
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October 1948 |
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Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 |
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Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 (detail) |
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Six-Day War: The Jordan salient |
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Six-Day War: Conquest of Sinai 7-8 June |
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Yom Kippur war |
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Yom Kippur war |
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Israel and the disputed territories after 1979 |
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The West Bank Barrier in february 2005 |
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The West Bank Barrier in may 2005 |
Other maps
Satellite maps
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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.
- ↑ Romanization: Filastīn - As-Sulta Al-Wataniyya Al-Filastīniyya.
- ↑ Most of the historical maps in this entry and in the entry on ► Israel are identical.
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