File:Old City of Jerusalem Name List 1936.pdf

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English: In 1936 the Palestine Mandate government compiled a list of names of Jerusalem buildings, gates, roads, etc and sent them to the various organizations and communities for approval. This document contains a record of their hand-written replies (which often added extra names) and the resulting accumulated list of 168 items. May have been related to the development of the Survey of Palestine 1936 detailed map of Jerusalem at File:Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500.jpg (described in Annual Report, 1936, of the Department of Land and Surveys, pages 368, 368: "In 1936 a complete map of the Old City of Jerusalem was published on the scale 1/2,500. The only previous map of the Old City was that made in 1865 by Sir Charles Wilson, previously mentioned. This map is apparently often called by writers the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem! Anyhow, it proved itself worthy of the title, for Lieut-Col F. J. Salmon states that it was sufficiently accurate to be used as the framing of the new map. The old map showed no more than the streets and principal edifices; the new shows all the structures…")
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