By Dorling Kindersley
ISBN-10: 0756683238
ISBN-13: 9780756683238
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There was bitter conflict between the Hasmoneans and the Pharisees, a rival THE SECOND TEMPLE priestly sect who propounded strict Returning to Jerusalem, in the 6th cen- observance of Hebrew religious tratury BC, the Jews built a new temple dition. In the struggle for influence, on the same site as the first. This event in the history of Jerusalem marks the beginning of what is referred to as the “Second Temple” period. The Persians remained dominant in the region until their empire was torn apart by the armies of Alexander the Great.
In 1342 Pope that had fled Spain several Clement VI ratified this centuries earlier. At the same mission, which took on the time, Europe was making its name of the Franciscan first real entry into the Custody of the Holy Land. region since the Crusades; The following century saw Napoleon landed in the beginning of a flow Egypt in 1798 and the of Jews into Palestine following year he had escaping persecution in to be repelled from Europe, a movement that invading at Akko by has continued through into Suleyman I, the Magnificent, the Ottoman governor, the 20th century.
The following year, in order to culminated in a series of pogroms in placate Arab discontent, the British Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed. An Arab recognized Trans-Jordan as an autono- “revolt” proclaimed in 1936 led to a mous Arab emirate, ruled by the emir six-month general strike that brought Abdullah, the eldest brother of Faisal, the country to a standstill. THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMANS AND THE BRITISH MANDATE The Theodor Herzl about to dock at Haifa, decks crowded with Jewish immigrants, 1947 TIMELINE TE Lawrence “of Arabia” 1900 1905 1916 Faisal and the Arabs, encouraged by T E Lawrence, join the British in a desert war against the Turks 1910 1909 Founding of 1914 War breaks Tel Aviv and first kibbutz in Palestine out in Europe; the Ottoman Turks side with Germany 24 July 1922 League of Nations ratifies British mandate in Palestine 1920 1915 1917 General Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks General Allenby 1925 T H E H I S T O R Y O F T H E H O L Y L A N D 53 PROPOSALS FOR PARTITION By this time, the British were finding rule in Palestine extremely uncomfortable.
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