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  2. Cartography of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    For several centuries during the Middle Ages it was the most prominent subject in all of cartography, [2] and it has been described as an "obsessive subject of map art". [3] The history of the mapping of Palestine is dominated by two cartographic traditions: the biblical school and the classical school. [4]

  3. Kiepert maps of Palestine and Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The operation of this principle has been, to exclude a multitude of names, ancient and modern, which figure at random on most maps of Palestine. In his 1856 Later Biblical Researches in Palestine, he stated that the new information learned on their second journey “rendered necessary a new construction” of the maps. [6]

  4. PEF Survey of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The majority of the work of the survey was carried out by the Royal Engineers.In addition to the extensive maps, the Palestine Exploration Fund published three copious volumes of the field work conducted by Conder and Kitchener, known as The Survey of Western Palestine (Memoirs of the Tography, Orography, Hydrgraphy, and Archæology), wherein are detailed accounts of every hill range, stream ...

  5. Russia and the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Russia has relations with all of the countries of the Middle East.Historically it has been involved in numerous wars there, especially with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, with Afghanistan, and recently in support of Syria.

  6. Palestine–Russia relations - Wikipedia

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    The bilateral relations between the State of Palestine and Russia (and before 1991, the Soviet Union) have a complex history, deeply interwoven with Russian and Soviet relations with the Israeli enterprise, Palestinian nationalism, and Third World national liberation movements.

  7. History of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Part of a series on the History of Palestine Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian ...

  8. Palestine–Turkey relations - Wikipedia

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    Turkey was one of the first countries to recognize Palestine. Palestine has an embassy in Ankara and a consulate general in Istanbul. Turkey's aid has been a source of humanitarian relief to Palestine, especially since the start of the Blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt. [1] Turkey has a deep-rooted shared history and ...

  9. Holy Land - Wikipedia

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    ' Travel book through Holy Scripture ') of Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606), a German Protestant pastor, featured such a map. [24] His book was very popular, and it provided "the most complete available summary of biblical geography and described the geography of the Holy Land by tracing the travels of major figures from the Old and New testaments."