Palestinian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Dura, Hebron with the correct year: Since ______, it has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority, as part of Area A of the West Bank and as part of the Hebron G…
  2. Complete the sentence about Dura, Hebron with the correct year: In ______, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine.
  3. Complete the sentence about Halhul with the correct year: In ______, the Ayyubid sultan al-Mu'azzam Isa had one of his mamluks, the governor of Hebron Rashid al-Din Faraj, construct the minaret of Hal…
  4. Complete the sentence about Beit Ummar with the correct year: In ______, the Ayyubid sultan al-Mu'azzam built a mosque with a minaret under the supervision of Jerusalem governor Rashid ad-Din al-Mu'az…
  5. Complete the sentence about Qabatiya with the correct year: Qabatiya, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Qabatiya with the correct year: In ______ Victor Guérin found gardens around Koubatieh planted with fig, olive and pomegranate trees, with vegetables underneath.
  7. Complete the sentence about Qabatiya with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a “large stone village on a slope, east of a small plain which is full of o…
  8. Complete the sentence about Anabta with the correct year: During Ottoman rule, Anabta was listed in the ______ Ottoman tax register as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Sami of the Liwa of Nablus.
  9. Complete the sentence about Anabta with the correct year: In ______, the American scholar Edward Robinson visited the village.
  10. Complete the sentence about Anabta with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a village of moderate size, in the valley, with olives around it.
  11. Complete the sentence about Huwara with the correct year: In ______, Robinson described Huwara as a "large and old village".
  12. Complete the sentence about Huwara with the correct year: In ______, Huwara was engaged in a battle with the neighboring villages of Quza and Beita which left 12 men and 5 women dead.
  13. Complete the sentence about Huwara with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Huwarah as a village "of stone and mud at the foot of Gerizim, just over the main r…
  14. Complete the sentence about Sinjil with the correct year: In ______ the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine.
  15. Complete the sentence about Sinjil with the correct year: In ______ it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds.
  16. Complete the sentence about Ni'lin with the correct year: A person named Isaac de Naelein is mentioned in a Crusader text of the year ______ in connection to nearby Casale St.
  17. Complete the sentence about Ni'lin with the correct year: In ______, Ni'lin was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine.
  18. Complete the sentence about Ni'lin with the correct year: In ______ it appeared in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Ramla of the liwa of Gaza.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ni'lin with the correct year: In ______, it was noted as a Muslim village called Na'lin in the Ibn Humar area in the district of Er-Ramleh.
  20. Complete the sentence about Ni'lin with the correct year: An Ottoman village list from ______ showed that Ni'lin had 156 houses and a population of 493, though the population count included only men.
  21. Complete the sentence about Bil'in with the correct year: After the Six-Day War in ______, Bil'in has been under Israeli occupation.
  22. Complete the sentence about Bil'in with the correct year: Since the signing of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in ______, it has been administered by the Palestinian National…
  23. Which place completes this sentence about Qalqilya? Edward Robinson described Kulakilieh in 1838 as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of ______.
  24. Which place completes this sentence about Salfit? Towards the end of Ottoman rule, Salfit was one of the two largest villages in the District of ______ that produced olive oil.
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Bayt Lahm? Under the Roman Empire, the city of ______ was destroyed by Hadrian, but later rebuilt by Constantine the Great, who commissioned the Church of the…
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Bayt Lahm? Later, during the rule of several Caliphates, ______ became part of Jund Filastin in 637.
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Bayt Lahm? In the mid-13th century, ______'s walls were demolished by the Mamluk Sultanate.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Bayt Lahm? During the 1967 Six-Day War, ______ was occupied by Israel along with the rest of the West Bank.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Tell es-Sultan? The tell was inhabited from the 10th millennium BCE, which makes ______ among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Hisham's Palace? Hisham's Palace was established north of ______'s urban centre.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Mount Gerizim? During the First Intifada in 1987, many Samaritan families relocated from ______ to Mount Gerizim to avoid the violence.
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Wadi Qelt? Joshua 15:7, 18:17 mentions Adummim in connection to an ascent leading up from ______ towards Jerusalem.
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Nuseirat? The Nuseirat camp was named after the local Nuseirat tribe, part of the larger Hanajira confederation, that historically dominated the area between…
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Khan Younis? Before the 14th century, ______ was a village known as "Salqah".
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Khan Younis? According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, ______ had a population of 205,125 in 2017.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ramallah with the correct year: Palestine came under British rule in ______ and Ramallah's economy and status improved during this period.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ramallah with the correct year: Ramallah was later captured by Israel in the ______ Six-Day War.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ramallah with the correct year: Since the ______ Oslo Accords, Ramallah has been governed by the Palestinian Authority, as part of Area A in the West Bank.
  39. Complete the sentence about Beit Hanoun with the correct year: Beit Hanoun survived, and Pierre Jacotin named the village Deir Naroun on his map depicting Napoleon's Syrian campaign of ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Beit Hanoun with the correct year: Socin found from an official Ottoman village list from about ______ that Beit Hanoun had 94 houses and a population of 294.
  41. Complete the sentence about Beit Hanoun with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a small adobe village, "surrounded by gardens, with a well to the west.
  42. Complete the sentence about Monastery of Temptation with the correct year: When the Crusaders conquered the area in ______, they built two churches on the site: one in a cave halfway up the cliff and…
  43. Complete the sentence about Monastery of Temptation with the correct year: The land upon which the modern monastery was built was purchased by the Orthodox Church in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Monastery of Temptation with the correct year: In ______, the monastery was constructed around a crude cave chapel that marks the stone where Jesus sat during his fast.
  45. Complete the sentence about Nuseirat with the correct year: In May ______ a mosque, the Grand Nuseirat Mosque, was opened by the Qatari envoy to Gaza, Mohammed Al Emadi.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bureij with the correct year: On 22 August ______, Hani al-Shami from Bureij was killed by Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bureij with the correct year: Maher Mahmud al-Makadma was shot and killed by IDF troops while painting slogans on 4 October ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Palestine with the correct year: In ______, internal divisions between political factions led to a takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
  49. Complete the sentence about Geography of the Gaza Strip with the correct year: In ______, Israel unilaterally withdrew its military forces from Gaza, dismantled its settlements, and implemented a temp…
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Since ______, the town has been governed by the PNA as part of Area A of the West Bank.
  51. Complete the sentence about Yatta, Hebron with the correct year: In ______, a Jewish burial complex dating to the 2nd century CE was found in the town.
  52. Complete the sentence about Bani Naim with the correct year: Ali of Herat passed through the village in ______ CE, noting that it was near Hebron and the burial place of Lot.
  53. Complete the sentence about Bani Naim with the correct year: The first known mention of the name 'Bani Na'im' was by the Muslim traveler Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Sa'ir with the correct year: In ______, Sa'ir appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Halil in the Liwa of Quds.
  55. Complete the sentence about Idhna with the correct year: Idna was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in ______ with all of Palestine.
  56. Complete the sentence about Idhna with the correct year: Victor Guérin visited Idna in June ______ and described a village with almost 500 inhabitants, divided into two districts, each ruled by a shei…
  57. Complete the sentence about Surif with the correct year: In ______, Surif was described as a Muslim village between Hebron and Gaza under the administration of Hebron.
  58. Complete the sentence about Surif with the correct year: An official Ottoman village list from about ______ showed 87 houses and a population of 265, counting men only.
  59. Complete the sentence about Tarqumiyah with the correct year: A Mamluk endowment record attests to the village's inhabited status in ______ CE.
  60. Complete the sentence about Tarqumiyah with the correct year: In the census of ______ the village appeared to be in the Nahiya of Halil of the Liwa of Quds.
  61. Complete the sentence about Tarqumiyah with the correct year: In ______ Edward Robinson passed by and noted that Tarqumiya was on the most common path from Gaza, via Bayt Jibrin to Hebron.
  62. Complete the sentence about Tarqumiyah with the correct year: In ______ SWP described Tarqumiyah as “A small village on a rocky hill near the low lands.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ya'bad with the correct year: In ______, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, a Muslim traveler, passed by Ya'bad and noted it as "a village between Jenin and Arrabeh".
  64. Complete the sentence about Ya'bad with the correct year: In ______ the prominent Arab resistance leader Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and a few of his men were killed in a cave near Ya'bad during a firefight…
  65. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: In ______ the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted that the village had a holy place named after the prophet 'Arabil'.
  66. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: Arraba was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in ______ along with the rest of Palestine.
  67. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: In ______-50 the Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi noted the village contained 100 Muslim houses and that its taxes were allocated to the…
  68. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: In ______ Arraba was noted as a village in the Sha'rawiya al-Sharqiya district, north of Nablus.
  69. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: The Abd al-Hadis sacked several villages, some of the results were shown to the British consul Rogers when he visited Arraba in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: In April ______ a coalition of Ottoman troops and local leaders opposed to the Abd al-Hadi clan, stormed Arraba.
  71. Complete the sentence about Arraba, Jenin with the correct year: In ______, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Arraba as "a very large village on the south slope of a ridge, the northern…
  72. Complete the sentence about Aqabat Jabr with the correct year: On 13 November ______, following an agreement with UNRWA, the Israeli authorities began a program of demolishing unused houses.
  73. Complete the sentence about Fasayil with the correct year: The tomb of an anchorite named Peter was found in the village in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ibrahimi Mosque with the correct year: In ______, special Jewish services were authorized outside the usual permitted hours on the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement.
  75. Complete the sentence about Mount Gilboa with the correct year: A minor battle between the army of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and Sultan Saladin took place at the foot of Mount Gilboa in ______…
  76. Complete the sentence about Mount Gilboa with the correct year: The ______ Battle of Ain Jalut was fought at the foot of Mount Gilboa.
  77. Complete the sentence about Wadi Fukin with the correct year: In ______, it was noted as a Muslim village, Wady Fukin, in the el-Arkub District, southwest of Jerusalem.
  78. Complete the sentence about Wadi Fukin with the correct year: An official Ottoman village list from about ______ showed that Wad Fukin had a total of 22 houses and a population of 62, though the popul…
  79. Complete the sentence about Mar Elias Monastery with the correct year: During the ______ Six-Day War, the Israel Defense Forces quickly overran Jordanian defences around the monastery on the way to Be…
  80. Complete the sentence about Susya with the correct year: The site was examined by Shmarya Guttman in ______, who uncovered the narthex of a synagogue during a trial dig.
  81. Complete the sentence about Masafer Yatta with the correct year: Since the June War in ______, Masafer Yatta has been under Israeli occupation.
  82. Complete the sentence about Masafer Yatta with the correct year: The homes of 80 people in Khallet Athaba were scheduled to be bulldozed on 29 September ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Khan Younis Camp with the correct year: On 3 November ______, the camp and city of Khan Yunis were occupied by the Israel Defense Forces.
  84. Complete the sentence about Jabalia Camp with the correct year: Since the Six-Day War in ______, the camp has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the Gaza Strip.
  85. Complete the sentence about Jabalia Camp with the correct year: Since the Six-Day War in ______, the camp was under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the Gaza Strip.
  86. Complete the sentence about Jabalia Camp with the correct year: The First Intifada in December ______ began in Jabalia and the camp is considered by Israel to be a "Hamas stronghold".
  87. Complete the sentence about Jabalia Camp with the correct year: The Al-Fakhura school shelling occurred in Jablia on January 6, ______, during the First Gaza War.
  88. Complete the sentence about Jabalia Camp with the correct year: During the ______ Gaza War, Israeli artillery reportedly hit a UNWRA school in Jabalia Camp, killing at least 15 Palestinians sheltering…
  89. Complete the sentence about Nuseirat Camp with the correct year: On 18 October ______ the Grand Nuseirat Mosque was bombed and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, subsequently the attacks continued causi…
  90. Complete the sentence about Deir al-Balah Camp with the correct year: The original residents of the camp, as with most other Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, came from villages and towns in cen…
  91. Complete the sentence about Al-Shifa Hospital with the correct year: The hospital was first established by the government of Mandatory Palestine in ______, and expanded during the Egyptian and later I…
  92. Complete the sentence about Gaza Seaport with the correct year: The establishment of a Gaza seaport was mentioned in the Oslo I Accord, as early as ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Gaza Seaport with the correct year: The ______ Agreement on Movement and Access, following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, re-announced the start of the works.
  94. Complete the sentence about Gaza Seaport with the correct year: The ______ Oslo I Accord announced a program for the establishment of a Gaza Sea Port Area.
  95. Complete the sentence about Gaza Seaport with the correct year: Due to Israeli obstruction, the ______ contract expired before the works could start.
  96. Complete the sentence about Gaza Seaport with the correct year: On 17 and 18 September ______, Israeli tanks destroyed the project site.
  97. Complete the sentence about Umm Rashrash with the correct year: The area was designated as part of the Jewish state in the ______ UN Partition Plan.
  98. Complete the sentence about Umm Rashrash with the correct year: Eilat Airport was built in ______ and individual ships began arriving in the 1950s, but as there were no dedicated port facilities they…
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Church of the Nativity? The Church of the Nativity, or Basilica of the Nativity, is a basilica located in ______, West Bank, Palestine.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Monastery of Temptation? Palestine, including ______, was conquered by the Arabs under the Islamic Caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab in the 630s.

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