Israel”—even though, as the map makes clear, in 1929 there was no country called Israel. (On a desktop, roll over to zoom; on a mobile device, click.) Instead, there was Mandatory Palestine.

The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in power, imperialism, and dispossession. From the British Mandate to the present day, Zionist (later Israeli) cartographers have ...

The current map of Palestine is often described as ... In 1920, it began its 28-year rule over British Mandate Palestine. Before the British Mandate in Palestine, Jews made up around six percent ...

In particular, a widely used image amongst anti-Israel groups of four supposedly historical maps of Israel and Mandate Palestine designed as an attempt to demonstrate the supposed seizure of ...

This declaration would become a central part of the British Mandate over Palestine. Jewish migration to Palestine began to increase. After the war, the League of Nations — the predecessor of the ...

A map (below) showed how those two states would ... Britain’s by-then-tenuous hold on Mandatory Palestine was relinquished on May 15, 1948 with the state of Israel declared.

After capturing Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War One (1914-18), Britain ruled over Palestine between 1923-1948 under a "mandate" from the League of Nations. Under 25 years ...

The maps showed parts of Palestine that are not even seen in maps created by Palestinian authorities, geographer Linda Quiquivix, who researched the Nakba map and maps of Palestine, told Al Jazeera.