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Mandatory Palestine

1920 – 1948
Sovereign stateAsia

British-administered territory carved from the former Ottoman region of Palestine, formalized as a League of Nations mandate in 1922 under the terms of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, governing amid rising Jewish immigration and Arab nationalist opposition.

Ended with the British withdrawal on 14-15 May 1948 and Israel's declaration of independence, triggering the first Arab-Israeli war.

Borders in 1934 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Mandatory Palestine — the shape you scrub through changes in 1920 · 1925 · 1934.

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