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[[ | [[Palestine Genealogy|Palestine]], located on the crossroads of [[Europe]], [[Asia and Middle East|Asia]], and [[Africa]], has a long and storied history dating back thousands of years. While some families and tribes living in Palestine maintained family lineages throughout that time, the first state-sponsored and comprehensive population registers were taken by the [[Ottoman Empire Genealogy|Ottoman Empire]], which conquered Mamluk Palestine in 1516. Ottoman Palestine was part of an elayet, or administrative district, based in Damascus, and was further subdivided into five sanjaks: Safad, Nablus, Jerusalem, Lajjun, and Gaza. Although Ottoman control of Palestinian affairs was fairly decentralized and weak during much of this period (with the Empire even briefly losing control of Palestine to Mohammad Ali's Egyptian army in the early 1800's), imperial reforms beginning in the second half of the 19th century led to more direct Ottoman control of the territory. The Empire began taking censuses of its population, including in Palestine, with varying degrees of comprehensiveness up until its collapse in 1918. For more information on these censuses, see [[Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records|Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers]]. | ||
After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, control of Palestine passed to [[Great Britain Genealogy|Great Britain]], which formally established the Mandate of Palestine with the support of the League of Nations in 1922. In the decades that followed, tensions increased between native Arab Palestinians and Jewish immigrants to Palestine and their descendants. After World War II, the United Nations proposed a plan to partition Palestine into two distinct Jewish and Arab states, but this plan was never implemented. When Britain withdrew its forces in 1948, war ensued, leading to the establishment of [[Israel Genealogy|Israel]] and the displacement of some 700,000 Palestinians, many of whom fled to Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring states<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "History of Palestine," ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine, accessed 2 December 2024.</ref>. Over time, and throughout subsequent conflicts, thousands of Palestinians left the Middle East for the United States, Latin America, and elsewhere. For more information on this migration, see [[State of Palestine Diaspora]]. | After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, control of Palestine passed to [[Great Britain Genealogy|Great Britain]], which formally established the Mandate of Palestine with the support of the League of Nations in 1922. In the decades that followed, tensions increased between native Arab Palestinians and Jewish immigrants to Palestine and their descendants. After World War II, the United Nations proposed a plan to partition Palestine into two distinct Jewish and Arab states, but this plan was never implemented. When Britain withdrew its forces in 1948, war ensued, leading to the establishment of [[Israel Genealogy|Israel]] and the displacement of some 700,000 Palestinians, many of whom fled to Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring states<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "History of Palestine," ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine, accessed 2 December 2024.</ref>. Over time, and throughout subsequent conflicts, thousands of Palestinians left the Middle East for the United States, Latin America, and elsewhere. For more information on this migration, see [[State of Palestine Diaspora]]. | ||
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