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Palestine was, until the end of the First World War, the southwestern part of Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria) in the Ottoman Empire. When we speak of Palestine today, the British Mandate zone within the boundaries of 1923-48 appears before us as a flint axe between Egypt (on the African side) and Transjordan, Syria, and Lebanon (on the Asiatic side). Hence it is understandable that we tend to think of this territory when we deal with the history of Ottoman Palestine prior to World War I. Indeed... |
