Palestine

The British Mandate for Palestine, also known as the Palestine Mandate and the Mandate for Palestine, was a geopolitic polity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. The mandate formalised British rule in Palestine, from 1922 until 1948. With the League of Nations' consent, Britain subdivided the region covered by the mandate into two administrative areas. The land west of the Jordan River remained under direct British rule until 1948 and was known as Palestine, while the land east of the Jordan became a semi-autonomous region known as Transjordan, under the rule of the Hashemite family from the Hijaz, which gained independence in 1946. In 1917, during the First World War, Britain defeated the...