Maps

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.

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The History of the Middle East: Every Year

See the entire history of the Middle East mapped out every year. From the origin of civilization to the modern conflicts that impact the world. Music used: Return of the Mummy by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4281-return-of-the-mummy License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Mystery Bazaar by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4107-mystery-bazaar License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Crossing the Chasm by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3562-crossing-the-chasm License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Truth of the Legend by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4551-truth-of-the-legend License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ibn Al-Noor by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3896-ibn-al-noor License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Time periods in the Palestine region

Time periods in the region of Palestine summarizes the major time periods in the history of the region of Palestine/Land of Israel, and notes the major events in each time period.

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Palestine, the Birthplace of Civilization.

When and where Civilization was born Prof. Mohamed Rabie Palestine, the Birthplace of Civilization The human race passed through two major civilizations on its way to the present one: the...

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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

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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

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2024

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Current

Cartographic Resistance

Israel uses maps as weapons. We study those maps.

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Maps — Palestine Nexus

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Palestine Open Maps

Explore, search and download historical maps and spatial data on Palestine

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David Rumsey Map Collection

NEW:  Search by Text-on-Maps! To learn more, see the About Text on Maps Help Guide. Here are some of our favorites:           Lighthouse   Yosemite   Ruin   ...

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Atlas of the Levant

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Levant, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Levant.

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Ottoman and Arab Maps of Palestine, 1880s-1910s

By: Zachary J. Foster  Academics have long concerned themselves with maps of Palestine.   But almost all of the published literature o...

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