British administration in Palestine

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

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:administeredBy	gptkb:High_Commissioner_for_Palestine
gptkbp:area	approximately 26,625 km²
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Jerusalem
gptkbp:conflict	gptkb:1947–1949_Palestine_war
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:Palestine_pound
gptkbp:dissolved	end of British Mandate
gptkbp:endDate	1948
gptkbp:flag	gptkb:Flag_of_the_British_Mandate_for_Palestine
gptkbp:governingBody	gptkb:United_Kingdom
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	British administration in Palestine
gptkbp:legalBasis	gptkb:League_of_Nations_Mandate_for_Palestine
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:UN_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine gptkb:White_Paper_of_1939 gptkb:Balfour_Declaration gptkb:Arab_Revolt_(1936–1939) gptkb:Peel_Commission
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:Haganah gptkb:Irgun gptkb:Palestine_Police_Force gptkb:Arab_Higher_Committee gptkb:Jewish_Agency_for_Palestine gptkb:Lehi_(Stern_Gang)
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Haj_Amin_al-Husseini gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann gptkb:David_Ben-Gurion gptkb:Menachem_Begin gptkb:Yitzhak_Shamir gptkb:Herbert_Samuel gptkb:Edmund_Allenby gptkb:Harold_MacMichael gptkb:Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni gptkb:Arthur_Wauchope gptkb:John_Vereker,_6th_Viscount_Gort
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Hebrew English
gptkbp:population	varied from about 750,000 in 1922 to over 1.9 million in 1947
gptkbp:predecessor	gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkbp:relatedOrganization	gptkb:Arab_Higher_Committee gptkb:Jewish_Agency_for_Palestine
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:UN_General_Assembly_Resolution_181 gptkb:White_Paper_of_1939 gptkb:Balfour_Declaration_(1917) gptkb:Mandate_for_Palestine_(1922) gptkb:San_Remo_conference_resolution
gptkbp:startDate	1920
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Egypt gptkb:Jordan gptkb:State_of_Israel
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Palestine_Gendarmerie gptkb:Palestine_Police_Clerical_Staff gptkb:Palestine_Police_Cooks
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7