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Guide to Palestine ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Palestine, officially the Palestine, is in the southern Levant region of the Middle East and is bordered by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. It currently consists of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The scope of Palestine Wiki pages encompasses all of historic Palestine and its inhabitants before 1948, including Ottoman-controlled Palestine and the British Mandate of Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza post 1948, and the modern Palestine administered by the Palestinian Authority. For information on Palestinian-Israelis living in Israel post 1948 and Jewish immigration to Palestine before and after 1948, please see Israel Genealogy.

The official language of the Palestine is Arabic. Due to the region's complex history, records from Palestine may be in a variety of languages, namely Ottoman Turkish.

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Palestine 1994-Present

Jurisdictions

Ottoman Period (ca. 1519-1918)

• Province of Damascus (Sham): the three Sanjaqs of Jerusalem, Jaffa-Gaza, and Nablus
• Province of Saida: Acre (seat of the province)

British Mandate of Palestine (ca. 1920-1948)

Administrative Divisions 1922

Southern District Beersheba Sub-district Gaza Sub-district Hebron Sub-district Jerusalem-Jaffa District Bethlehem Sub-district

Jaffa Division Jaffa Sub-district Ramleh Sub-district Jericho Sub-district Jerusalem Sub-district Ramallah Sub-district

Samaria District Baisan Sub-district Jenin Sub-district Nablus Sub-district Tulkarem Sub-district

Northern District Acre Sub-district Haifa Sub-district Nazareth Sub-district Safad Sub-district Tiberias Sub-district

Palestine (1994-Present)

Palestine is divided into the following governorates:

Bethlehem (West Bank) Deir Al-Balah (Gaza) Gaza (Gaza) Hebron (West Bank) Jenin (West Bank) Jericho (West Bank) Jerusalem (West Bank) Khan Yunis (Gaza) Nablus (West Bank) North Gaza (Gaza) Qalqiliya (West Bank) Rafah (Gaza) Ramallah & Al-Bireh (West Bank) Salfit (West Bank) Tubas (West Bank) Tulkarm (West Bank)