British Mandate for Palestine

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/British_Mandate_for_Palestine

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	mandate territory
gptkbp:administeredBy	gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:area	26,625 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy	gptkb:Egypt gptkb:Lebanon gptkb:Mediterranean_Sea gptkb:Syria gptkb:Transjordan gptkb:Sinai_Peninsula gptkb:Gulf_of_Aqaba
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Jerusalem
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:Palestine_pound
gptkbp:dissolved	termination of British administration
gptkbp:endDate	1948
gptkbp:establishedBy	gptkb:League_of_Nations
gptkbp:flag	gptkb:Flag_of_the_British_Mandate_for_Palestine
gptkbp:governor	gptkb:embassy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	British Mandate for Palestine
gptkbp:legalBasis	gptkb:Treaty_of_Sèvres gptkb:San_Remo_conference gptkb:Palestine_Mandate_document
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Eastern_Mediterranean gptkb:Levant
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Haifa gptkb:Hebron gptkb:Jaffa gptkb:Tel_Aviv gptkb:Nablus gptkb:Acre gptkb:Gaza Beersheba
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:White_Paper_of_1939 gptkb:Arab_Revolt_(1936–1939) gptkb:Peel_Commission_(1937) gptkb:UN_Partition_Plan_(1947)
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Hebrew English
gptkbp:population	1,972,560 (1947 estimate)
gptkbp:predecessor	gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkbp:purpose	administration of territory after World War I implementation of Balfour Declaration
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Jewish_community gptkb:Middle_East gptkb:World_War_I gptkb:Arab-Jewish_conflict Orthodox Judaism League of Nations mandates Palestinian nationalism
gptkbp:startDate	1920
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:State_of_Israel Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Gaza Strip under Egyptian administration
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Ottoman_Empire gptkb:Orthodox_Judaism
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4