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Title
A name given to the resource
Railway tracks
Description
An account of the resource
The Hejaz Rail ran from Damascus to Medina with a branch through the port city of Haifa. Palestine Railways linked El Kantara, Egypt to Haifa by way of Jerusalem. These railways once served to connect the region but were discontinued in 1948.
commercial development
Hejaz Rail Line
infrastructure
Palestine Railways
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Title
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Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period
Description
An account of the resource
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI.
In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament.
After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information.
Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places
Historical Map
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Cartographer
Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier)
Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert)
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
index map
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~240963~5512342?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=58
Date Published
1880
Date Depicted
1872-1877
Engraver
Ordinance Survey Office
Call Number
6930.000
Format notes
Scale 1:
620,000
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Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic (and English
Description
An account of the resource
This map presents the place names of western Palestine in Arabic and explains their meaning in a key on the side. It also marks the location of Arabic villages, churches and mosques. It is a notable that this map is included to the Palestine Exploration Fund Survey because it acknowledges the development of an indigenous culture in the region since the time of the new testament.
The New Testament seems to color the surveyors' interaction with the land in the remainder of the collection so I hope to study the ways that it has seeped into this map as well. Notably, unlike the other maps in the survey, this map appears less technologically advanced and does not include topography lines. It might be less useful as an orienting tool for the military and might instead represent the academic interests behind the survey.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River
arabic place names
arabic transcribed to english
camp
greenery
infrastructure
key
numbers
religious buildings
vehicles
water bodies