The South‐Eastern limits of Palestine at the end of Ottoman rule

Abstract

The first source was a sketch map annexed to the annual reports of the British Consul in Jerusalem as from 1907 up to 1914.1 The second was a map of Asia drawn by the Royal Geographical Society and printed by the War Office in 1916.2 Another source was the remarkable Handbook of Syria (including Palestine), written by the Geographical Section, Intelligence Division Admiralty in 1918. The Handbook stated that 'all that lies east of the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Watershed is included in the Kerak Sanjak of the Vilayet of Damascus'.3 British official publications after World War I followed suit.4