a cartographical history
borders generally represent region of political control or influence and not a full representation of diverse groups of native people or immigrants that live there.
60,000 BC - Early Cultures, Emiran (60-40K BP), Ahmarian (46-42K BP), Lavantine Aurignacian (35-29K BP), Kebaran (23-15K BP), Natufian (15-11K BP), Mushabian (14-12K BP), Harifian (11-10K BP)
10,000 BC - Mesopotamia Civilization and early Canaan cultures, Yarmakian (6400 BC), Lodian (6000 BC), Nizzanim (6000 BC), Wadi Rabah (5500 BC), Ghassulian (4500 BC) Timnian (4400 BC), Amurru (2000 BC)
1500 BC - Egyptian New Kingdom, Canaan
1200? BC - Israelite conquest of Canaan, Period of Judges, and 12 Tribes, Philistine City States
1000 BC - Kings of Israel Saul, David, Solomon, Philistine City States
930 BC - Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, Philistine City States
720 BC - Assyrian Empire, Palashtu/Pilistu/Pilishti/Palestine
605 BC - Neo Babylonian Empire, Amurre
539 BC - Persian Achaemenid Empire
332 BC - Greek Macedonian Empire, Παλαιστίνη/Palaistine
301 BC - Egypt Ptolemaic Kingdom, Coele-Syria
195 BC - Greek Seleucid Empire, Coele-Syria
140 BC - Hasmonean Israel, Judaea, Palestine
37 BC - Roman Republic King Herod, Judaea, Palaestia/Palaestina
6 - Roman Empire, Palestine, Syria-Palaestina
395 - Eastern Roman Empire, Syria-Palaestina
614 - Persian Sassanid Empire, Palaestina
626 - Byzantine Empire, Palaestina
637 - Islamic Rashidun Caliphate, Filastin
656 - Islamic Umayyad Caliphate, Filastin
748 - Islamic Abbasid Caliphate, Filastin
935 - Ikhshidid Dynasty, Filastin
970 - Fatimid Caliphate, Filastin
1071 - Seljuk Empire, Filastin
1100 - Kingdom of Jerusalem Crusader state, Holy Land of Judea
1188 - Ayyubid Sultanate & 2nd Kingdom of Jerusalem Crusader State, Holy Land
1292 - Mamluk Sultanate
1516 - Ottoman Empire, Filistin, Sanjak of Jerusalem
1918 - British Empire, Palestine
1948 - State of Israel and Occupied Territories of Palestine
No Borders
15-12K BP Natufian culture
10,000-6500 BC Pre-Pottery Neolithic
6400-5800 BC Nizzanim/Yarmukian/Lodian cultures
Bronze Age
2000-1800 BC: Travels of Abraham
1550-1250 BC: Egypt New Kingdom
1250-1150 BC Bronze Age Collapse
By the Late Bronze Age, the Eastern Mediterranean was at the center of the some of the most advanced civilizations of the world. In Egypt, the New Kingdom was at its height, in Anatolia, the Hittites had carved out a vast empire, in the Levant, the Canaanite coastal cities were prospering through trade from Egypt to Mesopotamia, and in the Aegean, the Mycenaean culture was flourishing.
Iron Age
Canaan
13th Century BC?: Conquest of Canaan by Israelites
Upon arriving in the Levant, the Israelites were supposedly commanded by their God to wage a war of annihilation against the Canaanite peoples that lived there. (Deuteronomy 20:17). Unclear archeological evidence of actual events and timing of conquest.
13th Century BC: 12 Canaan divided into 12 tribes of Israel by conquering Israelites
late 11th century BC Kingdom of Saul
Saul unites most Israelites into a single kingdom
980 BC King David
940 BC King Solomon
900 BC Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah after death of Solomon
720 BC: Assyria conquers Kingdom of Israel
587 BC: Babylon conquers Kingdom of Judah
Persian Empire (Achaemenid)
Hellenistic, Ptolemaic, Seleucid
Roman
190 BC
133 BC
Medieval
Byzantine
330 Palaestina I, II, & Salutaris
Division of Eastern and Western Roman empire
526
Eastern Roman Empire during Justinian reign
624
632
640
650
733
750
1096-1099 1st Crusade
1180
1149-1291 Since Second Crusade
1200
1263
1330
1450
1500 Ottoman
1650 فلسطين Land of Palestine along Jordan river
1830
1833
1843
1867
1878 Gaza
1880
1890
1911
1916 Sykes-Pico partition by British and French
1920 British Mandate
1937 Peel Commission
1945 Jewish Areas
1946 Population
1947 Land Ownership
1947 British motor map before Partition
1948 Nakba Palestinian Refugees
1948 Military control 5/14
1946 detailed map with 1949 Armistice lines drawn, signed by Moshe Dayan
1947-1949 UN Partition and Armistice
1992 Oslo Accords ABC areas
1995-2011 Israeli Settlements
2023
Israel War on Gaza
Yinon Magal Plan for Gaza 1/10/24
https://twitter.com/YinonMagal/status/1745019895991914581
2024
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