Abu Dis, the Glossary
Abu Dis or Abu Deis (أبو ديس) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, bordering Jerusalem.[1]
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90 relations: Abu Dis Waste Disposal Site, Ahmed Qurei, Akçe, Al-Quds University, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, Arabic script, Area C (West Bank), Bahurim, Beit Jala, Bethany, Byzantine Empire, Capital city, Cave, Chris McGreal, Cistern, Clothing, Columbarium, Corpus separatum (Jerusalem), Crocker & Brewster, Defter, Deir Dibwan, Dunam, East Jerusalem, Ein Karem, Governorates of Palestine, Green Line (Israel), Horatio Spafford, International humanitarian law, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli land and property laws, Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Israeli settlement, Israeli West Bank barrier, Jahalin Bedouin, Jericho, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Jerusalem Governorate, John L. McKenzie, Jordan, Jordan River, Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, Kamel Arekat, Latin script, Levy Economics Institute, List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority, Liwa (Arabic), London Borough of Camden, Ma'ale Adumim, Mandate for Palestine, ... Expand index (40 more) »
Abu Dis Waste Disposal Site
Abu Dis is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority bordering Jerusalem.
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Ahmed Qurei
Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei (also spelled Qureia or Qurie; أحمد علي محمد قريع,; 26 March 1937 – 22 February 2023), also known by his kunya Abu Alaa (أبو علاء), was a Palestinian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
Akçe
The akçe or akça (also spelled akche, akcheh; آقچه;,, in Europe known as asper or aspre) was a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire.
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Al-Quds University
Al-Quds University (Jerusalem University) is a public university in the Jerusalem Governorate, Palestine.
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; معهد الابحاث التطبيقية - القدس) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
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Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
Area C (West Bank)
Area C (שטח C; منطقة ج) is the fully Israeli-controlled and only contiguous territory in the West Bank, defined as the whole area outside the Palestinian enclaves (Areas A and B).
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Bahurim
Bahurim (etymology uncertainMcKenzie, John, Dictionary of the Bible, Simon & Schuster, 1995, p77) was a village mentioned in the Hebrew Bible east of Jerusalem, on the road to the Jordan valley, close to the Mount of Olives.
Beit Jala
Beit Jala (بيت جالا) is a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank.
Bethany
Bethany (Βηθανία,Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p. Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ Bēṯ ʿAnyā), locally called in Arabic Al-Eizariya or al-Aizariya (العيزرية, "place of Lazarus"), is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of Palestine, bordering East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.
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Chris McGreal
Chris McGreal is a reporter for The Guardian.
Cistern
A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water.
Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.
Columbarium
A columbarium (pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.
Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)
Corpus separatum (Latin for "separated body") was the internationalization proposal for Jerusalem and its surrounding area as part of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
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Crocker & Brewster
Crocker & Brewster (1818–1876) was a leading publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts, during its 58-year existence.
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Defter
A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Deir Dibwan
Deir Dibwan (دير دبوان) is a Palestinian city in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank east of Ramallah.
Dunam
A dunam (Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: دونم; dönüm; דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.
East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem (al-Quds ash-Sharqiya) is the portion of Jerusalem that was held by Jordan after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, as opposed to West Jerusalem, which was held by Israel.
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Ein Karem
Ein Karem (עֵין כֶּרֶם, ʿEin Kerem lit. "Spring of the Vineyard"; in Arabic ʿAyn Kārim;Sharon, 2004, p. also Ain Karem, Ein Kerem) is a historic mountain village southwest of Jerusalem, presently a neighborhood in the outskirts of the modern city, within the Jerusalem District.
Governorates of Palestine
The Governorates of Palestine (محافظات فلسطين) are the administrative divisions of the State of Palestine.
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Green Line (Israel)
The Green Line or 1949 Armistice border is the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Horatio Spafford
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder.
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International humanitarian law
International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello).
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Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.
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Israeli land and property laws
Land and property laws in Israel are the property law component of Israeli law, providing the legal framework for the ownership and other in rem rights towards all forms of property in Israel, including real estate (land) and movable property.
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Israeli occupation of the West Bank
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War.
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Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories.
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Israeli West Bank barrier
The Israeli West Bank barrier, comprising the West Bank Wall and the West Bank fence, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank.
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Jahalin Bedouin
The Jahalin Bedouin are a Palestinian tribe of Bedouin Arabs who currently live in the eastern Judaean Desert in the West Bank.
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Jericho
Jericho (Arīḥā,; Yərīḥō) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine; it is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of Palestine.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem District
The Jerusalem District (מחוז ירושלים; منطقة القدس) is one of the six administrative districts of Israel.
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Jerusalem Governorate
The Quds Governorate (Muḥāfaẓat al-Quds; translit), also Jerusalem Governorate, is one of the 16 governorates of Palestine and located in the central part of the West Bank.
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John L. McKenzie
John Lawrence McKenzie (1910–1991) was an American Catholic biblical scholar.
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Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Jordan River
The Jordan River or River Jordan (نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (نهر الشريعة.), is a river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the freshwater Sea of Galilee and on to the salt water Dead Sea.
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on April 24, 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on July 31, 1988.
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Kamel Arekat
Kamel Arekat (كامل عريقات, also spelled Kamel Uraygat; 26 March 1901 – 17 July 1984) was a Palestinian Jordanian militant and politician who served as the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Jordan.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
Levy Economics Institute
Founded in 1986 as the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think tank.
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The following is a list of cities administered by the Palestinian National Authority.
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Liwa (Arabic)
Liwa (لواء,, "ensign" or "banner") has developed various meanings in Arabic.
London Borough of Camden
The London Borough of Camden is a London borough in Inner London, England.
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Ma'ale Adumim
Ma'ale Adumim (מַעֲלֵה אֲדֻמִּים; معالي أدوميم) is an urban Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the West Bank, seven kilometers east of Jerusalem.
Mandate for Palestine
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordanwhich had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuriesfollowing the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The mandate was assigned to Britain by the San Remo conference in April 1920, after France's concession in the 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George Agreement of the previously agreed "international administration" of Palestine under the Sykes–Picot Agreement.
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Moshe Brawer
Moshe Brawer (משה ברוור‎; 3 November 1919 – 28 December 2020) was an Israeli geographer.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem (قُدس شَرِيف مُتَصَرِّفلغى, Kudüs-i Şerif Mutasarrıflığı; متصرفية القدس الشريف, Mutaṣarrifiyyat al-quds aš-šarīf), also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status established in 1872.
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Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.
Naskh (script)
Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Omar (2013 film)
Omar (ʻUmar) is a 2013 Palestinian drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad.
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Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995.
Oslo II Accord
The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip commonly known as Oslo II or Oslo 2, was a key and complex agreement in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Palestine Exploration Fund
The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.
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Palestine grid
The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine.
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Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority, officially known as the Palestinian National Authority or the State of Palestine, is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; translit) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine.
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Palestinian enclaves
The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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Palestinian Legislative Council
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the unicameral legislature of the Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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PEF Survey of Palestine
The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine.
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Qadi
A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.
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Rezé
Rezé (Reudied, Gallo: Rezae) is a commune (municipality) and former bishopric in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region of western France.
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Ruth Kark
Ruth Kark (רות קרק; born 1941) is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Saeb Erekat
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (صائب محمد صالح عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt; also ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat; 28 April 195510 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020.
Saladin
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Sanjak
A sanjak (سنجاق,, "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
Second Intifada
The Second Intifada (lit; האינתיפאדה השנייה), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel between 2000 and 2005.
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Sheikh
Sheikh (shaykh,, شُيُوخ, shuyūkh) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder".
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.
State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia, encompassing the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, within the larger historic Palestine region.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 is a resolution adopted near the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war.
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Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.
Village Statistics, 1945
Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by the Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine which acted in early 1946.
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Waqf
A (وَقْف;, plural), also called a (plural حُبوس or أَحْباس), or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law.
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West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
Winepress
A winepress is a device used to extract juice from crushed grapes during winemaking.
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
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1927 Jericho earthquake
The 1927 Jericho earthquake was a devastating event that shook Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan on July 11 at.
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1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine.
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1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
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1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt, UN Doc S/1264/Corr.1 23 February 1949 Lebanon, UN Doc S/1296 23 March 1949 Jordan, UN Doc S/1302/Rev.1 3 April 1949 and Syria.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dis
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