Beduin, or Bedu (Arabic: بَدْو) are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab...
After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other side, officially ended war between those countries. Other treaties ended the belligerent r...
After 100 years of writing and discussion, there’s really no such thing as a neglected field of research when it comes to WW1. Look around and you will find books about what you want, especially general ones. Rather there is a curve which is categorised by volume; Which aspect has the...
The Mandates Commission also got involved in tensions inPalestinebetween the incoming Jewish population and Palestinian Arabs, though any hopes of sustaining peace there was further complicated byNazipersecution of the Jews, which lead to a rise in immigration to Palestine. ...
including post-war control of oil in the Middle East and control of Palestine. Gallipoli was a disaster for the allies in 1915 and the truth had to be concealed at all costs from the peoples of colonial Australia and New Zealand or they would have reacted severely against both the ‘Mother...
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The First Crusade, led by powerful aristocrats, was successful in reestablishing Christian control in Palestine and Syria. The Third Crusade, which aimed to retake Jerusalem, resulted in a stalemate, while the Fourth Crusade shifted its focus to Byzantine politics rather than reclaiming the Holy La...
A first concrete reaction of Muslim leaders in Great Britain, Palestine, Syria, and British India to Atatürk’s reforms was the attempt to set up an international solidarity movement to exert pressure on the Turkish government not to abolish the Caliphate. In their functions as representatives of...
led the Zionists' effort to establish a Jewish homeland in PalestineTheodor Herzlsupported the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Who were the first white settlers of Australia? FINAL Convicts Which development caused a dramatic increase in Australian immigration? Gold was ...
Losses caused by the Arab Revolt led by Lawrence of Arabia, and even more importantly the shift of the Palestine front from Allied defence to Allied attack (two Turkish offensives on the Suez Canal in 1915-1916 failed miserably). Allied forces, possibly inspired by Lord Kitchener's saying "...