ABSTRACT
The outcome of World War I and the events that took place between 1914 and 1918 had turned Palestine into a defined territorial unit with clear boundaries for the first time in the modern era. The political debates and military actions that hastened the crumbling of the Ottoman Empire created a vacuum in the Middle East. The victorious nations, mainly Britain and France, redesigned the post-war map of the region, and Palestine was formed as a part of this process. The delimitation of Palestine’s boundaries was done partially through the splitting of control areas among the victorious nations, and partially through an internal territorial reorganization of the area that Great Britain controlled following the war.
