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Karatiya
Karatiyya ( ar, كرتيا) was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village of 1,370, located northeast of Gaza City, Gaza, situated in a flat area with an elevation of along the coastal plain of Palestine (region), Palestine and crossed by Wadi al-Mufrid. History Byzantine Empire, Byzantine ceramics have been found here. In the 12th century, a castle called ''Galatie'' was built on the village site by the Crusades, Crusaders, it was subsequently captured by the Ayyubids under Saladin in 1187,Khalidi, 1992, p.118 and destroyed in September 1191. The place called ''Kulat el Fenish'' by the village was apparently once a church. The remains were seen in 1875: "The tower on the mound is called Kulat el Fenish. It is a solid block of masonry, standing some 20 or 30 feet in height. Near it lie shafts and bases of white marble, and an elaborate cornice, well and deeply cut. There is also a Baptismal font, font, like that at Beit 'Auwa (Sheet XXI.), formed by four intersecting ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Turks, but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement, and in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided the area under the Sykes–Picot Agreementan act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Further complicating the issue was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
