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  1. Complete the sentence about Gaza City with the correct year: Gaza City fell to British forces during World War I, becoming a part of Mandatory Palestine from ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Hebron with the correct year: Since the ______ Hebron Protocol, most of Hebron has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority.
  3. Complete the sentence about Nablus with the correct year: After the city was captured by British forces during World War I, Nablus was incorporated into Mandatory Palestine in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Bethlehem with the correct year: Muslims continued to rule the city until ______, when it was conquered by the Crusaders, who replaced the local Christian Greek Orthodox cl…
  5. Complete the sentence about Bethlehem with the correct year: During the ______ Six-Day War, Bethlehem was occupied by Israel along with the rest of the West Bank.
  6. Complete the sentence about Jericho with the correct year: Administrative control of Jericho was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Jericho with the correct year: The first excavations of the site were carried out by Charles Warren in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Tulkarm with the correct year: During the Ayyubid era, after the Muslim reconquest of Palestine under Sultan Saladin in ______, the first families to settle in Tulkarm were…
  9. Complete the sentence about Tulkarm with the correct year: Around ______, during the late Ayyubid period, a group of Arabs from southern Palestine immigrated to Tulkarm.
  10. Complete the sentence about Tulkarm with the correct year: Two-thirds of the village's farmlands were confirmed as part of this trust in ______ by the deputy-governor of Damascus, Faris al-Din al-Baki…
  11. Complete the sentence about Qalqilya with the correct year: Edward Robinson described Kulakilieh in ______ as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.
  12. Complete the sentence about Qalqilya with the correct year: On the night of 10 October ______, the Israeli army launched a raid against Qalqilya police station in response to a Jordanian attack on Isr…
  13. Complete the sentence about Khan Yunis with the correct year: Khan Yunis was the site of a minor battle in late ______, when the Egypt-based Mamluks were defeated by Ottoman forces under the leadershi…
  14. Complete the sentence about Rafah with the correct year: After the ______ Palestine war, Egypt governed the area and refugee camps for displaced Palestinians who fled or were expelled from what became…
  15. Complete the sentence about Rafah with the correct year: During the ______ Six-Day War, Israeli forces re-occupied the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip after capturing them from Egypt.
  16. Complete the sentence about Rafah with the correct year: When Israel fully withdrew from the Sinai in ______, Rafah was split into a Gazan part and an Egyptian part, separated by barbed-wire barriers.
  17. Complete the sentence about Deir al-Balah with the correct year: Deir al-Balah became the first city to come under Palestinian self-rule in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Deir al-Balah with the correct year: Ahmad Kurd, a Hamas member, was elected mayor in late January ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Beit Jala with the correct year: In ______, the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine.
  20. Complete the sentence about Beit Jala with the correct year: In the ______ tax-records, it appeared as Bayt Jala, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds.
  21. Complete the sentence about Beit Sahour with the correct year: The Franciscans ceased holding religious services at the shrine by Shepherd's Field around ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Beit Sahour with the correct year: In ______ a new Roman Catholic church and school were completed.
  23. Complete the sentence about Beit Sahour with the correct year: In ______ the population of Beit Sahour was estimated to be about 861 persons.
  24. Complete the sentence about Salfit with the correct year: Salfit was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in ______ with all of Palestine, and sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found.
  25. Complete the sentence about Jabalia with the correct year: In ______, Edward Robinson noted Jebalia as a Muslim village, located in the Gaza district.
  26. Complete the sentence about Jabalia with the correct year: In ______, Victor Guérin found in the mosque fragments of old constructions, and at the well some broken columns.
  27. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the gift was re-confirmed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
  28. Complete the sentence about Al-Bireh with the correct year: In ______, 92 people from Mahomeria pledged their allegiance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and a further 50 names were added in the n…
  29. Complete the sentence about Old City of Jerusalem with the correct year: The Old City, along with its walls, was added to the World Heritage Site list of UNESCO in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Old City of Jerusalem with the correct year: During the ______ Six-Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control.
  31. Complete the sentence about Old City of Jerusalem with the correct year: Israel unilaterally asserted in its ______ Jerusalem Law that the whole of Jerusalem was Israel's capital.
  32. Complete the sentence about East Jerusalem with the correct year: After the ______ war, the territory was held by Jordan, as opposed to West Jerusalem, which became part of the newly established State…
  33. Complete the sentence about East Jerusalem with the correct year: Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the ______ Six-Day War; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control.
  34. Complete the sentence about East Jerusalem with the correct year: The ______ Jerusalem Law declared unified Jerusalem the capital of Israel, formalizing the effective annexation of East Jerusalem.
  35. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa Mosque with the correct year: After the area was conquered by Saladin in ______, the structure's function as a mosque was restored.
  36. Complete the sentence about Church of the Nativity with the correct year: The silver star marking the spot where Christ was born, inscribed in Latin, was stolen in October ______ by Greek monks who wi…
  37. Complete the sentence about Church of the Nativity with the correct year: Since ______, the Church of the Nativity is a World Heritage Site and was the first to be listed by UNESCO under 'Palestine'.
  38. Complete the sentence about Church of the Nativity with the correct year: Since ______, the rights of the three religious communities have been governed by an understanding known as the Status Quo.
  39. Complete the sentence about Cave of the Patriarchs with the correct year: In ______, special Jewish services were authorized outside the usual permitted hours on the Jewish New Year and Day of Atoneme…
  40. Complete the sentence about Mar Saba with the correct year: The monastery kept its importance during the existence of the Catholic Kingdom of Jerusalem established by Crusaders in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Mar Saba with the correct year: In ______, the Serbian monastic community of Palestine, based out of the fourteenth century Monastery of Holy Archangels, purchased Mar Saba…
  42. Complete the sentence about Herodium with the correct year: From ______ onward, intermittent excavations were carried out by Prof.
  43. Complete the sentence about Herodium with the correct year: In ______, Edward Robinson identified the site in Biblical Researches in Palestine as Herodium based on the description found in Josephus.
  44. Complete the sentence about Qumran with the correct year: Since the ______ Six-Day War, Qumran has been managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
  45. Complete the sentence about Qumran with the correct year: The initial attention of the early explorers was focused on the cemetery, beginning with de Saulcy in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: Lynch's ______ book Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea is available online.
  47. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: In ______, Israel began operating a pumping station that diverts water from the Sea of Galilee to the National Water Carrier.
  48. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of ______, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year…
  49. Complete the sentence about West Bank with the correct year: Since ______, the territory has been under Israeli occupation, which is illegal under international law.
  50. Complete the sentence about West Bank with the correct year: Jordan ruled the territory until the ______ Six-Day War, when it was occupied by Israel.
  51. Complete the sentence about West Bank with the correct year: Under the Oslo Accords this area was to be mostly transferred to the PNA by ______, but that did not occur.
  52. Complete the sentence about Gaza Strip with the correct year: In ______, Israel unilaterally withdrew its military forces from Gaza, dismantled its settlements, and implemented a temporary blockade of…
  53. Complete the sentence about Gaza Strip with the correct year: The blockade became indefinite after the ______ Hamas takeover.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mount Gerizim with the correct year: During the First Intifada in ______, many Samaritan families relocated from Nablus to Mount Gerizim to avoid the violence.
  55. Complete the sentence about Mount Ebal with the correct year: In ______, a structure on Mount Ebal was discovered by Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal during the Manasseh Hill Country Survey.
  56. Complete the sentence about Samaria with the correct year: Samaria was used to describe the northern midsection of the land in the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: On March 20, ______, Pope John Paul II visited the summit of Mount Nebo during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
  58. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: Pope Benedict XVI visited the site in ______, gave a speech, and looked out from the top of the mountain in the direction of Jerusalem.
  59. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: Saller O.F.M. was continued in ______ by Jerome Mihaic of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.
  60. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: On the highest point of the mountain, Syagha, the remains of a Byzantine church and monastery were discovered in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: In ______, the Custody of the Holy Land decided to restore the mosaic floors and Virgilio Corbo was put in charge of the project.
  62. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: Israel, along with France and the United Kingdom, invaded and occupied Sinai during the Suez Crisis of ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: Israel invaded the Sinai at the start of the Six-Day War of ______ due to Egyptian forces massing to invade Israel.
  64. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: On 6 October ______, Egypt launched the Yom Kippur War, seizing most of the east bank of the Suez Canal while Israel seized even more…
  65. Complete the sentence about Mediterranean Sea with the correct year: Around ______ BC the eastern Mediterranean was greatly affected by the Bronze Age Collapse, which resulted in the destruction of ma…
  66. Complete the sentence about Wadi Gaza with the correct year: The Wadi Gaza Nature Reserve was declared a nature reserve by the Environmental Quality Authority of the Palestinian Authority in June ____…
  67. Complete the sentence about Beit Lahia with the correct year: In ______, Edward Robinson noted Beit Lehia as a Muslim village located in the Gaza district.
  68. Complete the sentence about Beit Lahia with the correct year: An Ottoman village list from about ______ showed that Beit Lahia had a population of 394, with a total of 118 houses, though the populatio…
  69. Complete the sentence about Yasser Arafat International Airport with the correct year: The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November ______ as Gaza International Air…
  70. Complete the sentence about Yasser Arafat International Airport with the correct year: The airport was named Gaza International Airport and opened on 24 November ______; Palestinian leader Yasser Araf…
  71. Complete the sentence about Rafah Border Crossing with the correct year: In ______, after Hamas seized Gaza, the EU withdrew, and Israel imposed a complete blockade, effectively sealing Gaza.
  72. Complete the sentence about Rafah Border Crossing with the correct year: By the Ottoman–British agreement of 1 October ______, a border between Ottoman-ruled Palestine and British-ruled Egypt, from Ta…
  73. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman government of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem built a bridge at this site.
  74. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, British general Edmund Allenby built a bridge over the remnant of the Ottoman predecessor.
  75. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, subsequent to the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, a new modern paved crossing was constructed adjacent to the older wooden one…
  76. Complete the sentence about Qalandia with the correct year: Qalandia refugee camp was built for Palestinian refugees who fled from Lydda, Ramla, and Jerusalem during the ______ Palestinian expulsion a…
  77. Complete the sentence about Qalandia with the correct year: In ______ the Abbot leased the use of the vineyards and orchards of Qalandia to a Nemes the Syrian and his brother Anthony and their childre…
  78. Complete the sentence about Qalandia with the correct year: In ______ Queen Melisende exchanged villagers whom she owned for shops and two moneychanger counters in Jerusalem.
  79. Complete the sentence about Qalandia with the correct year: Qalandia, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Bethlehem Governorate with the correct year: In the ______ Palestinian legislative election, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and The Alternative both had…
  81. Complete the sentence about Jenin Governorate with the correct year: Four Israeli settlements were evacuated as a part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Gaza Governorate with the correct year: All of its seats were won by Hamas members in the ______ parliamentary elections.
  83. Complete the sentence about Palestine with the correct year: In the Six-Day War in ______, Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which had been held by Jordan and Egypt respectively.
  84. Complete the sentence about Palestine with the correct year: Israel withdrew from Gaza in its unilateral disengagement in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Palestine with the correct year: Specifically, the term "occupied Palestinian territory" refers as a whole to the geographical area of the Palestinian territory occupied by…
  86. Complete the sentence about Mount Scopus with the correct year: Since the collapse of the City Line in ______, the area now lies within Jerusalem's Israeli municipal boundaries.
  87. Complete the sentence about Battir with the correct year: In ______, Battir appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Quds in the Liwa of Quds.
  88. Complete the sentence about Battir with the correct year: In ______ it was noted as Bittir, a Muslim village in the Beni Hasan district, west of Jerusalem.
  89. Complete the sentence about Battir with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Battir as a moderate sized village, on the precipitous slope of a deep valley.
  90. Complete the sentence about Taybeh, Ramallah with the correct year: In ______, SWP suggested that Taybeh might have been ancient Ophrah of Benjamin, and prominent scholars have backed this identificat…
  91. Complete the sentence about Taybeh, Ramallah with the correct year: In February ______, Joscelin III gave the castle to king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem along with some other properties in return for the…
  92. Complete the sentence about Birzeit with the correct year: In ______ it was noted as a small Christian village, north-west of Jifna.
  93. Complete the sentence about Birzeit with the correct year: The French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in July ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Birzeit with the correct year: Socin, citing an official Ottoman village list compiled around ______, noted that Bir Zet as having 73 houses and a male population of 250.
  95. Complete the sentence about Birzeit with the correct year: In ______ the population of Bir ez-zet was estimated to be about 786 Christians and 192 Muslims.
  96. Complete the sentence about Silwad with the correct year: In ______, Selwad was noted as a Muslim village in the District of Beni Murrah, north of Jerusalem.
  97. Complete the sentence about Silwad with the correct year: An Ottoman village list of about ______ counted 205 houses and a population of 817 in Silwad, though the population count included men, only.
  98. Complete the sentence about Silwad with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as being situated on a hill, and having ancient tombs and a fine spring.
  99. Complete the sentence about Dura, Hebron with the correct year: In ______, Dura was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Syria.
  100. Complete the sentence about Dura, Hebron with the correct year: Dura was established as a municipality on January 1, ______, five months before it came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War.

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