Historical Flags (Palestine)

Last modified: 2005-04-09 by santiago dotor
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• Before 1916
• Palestine and Transjordan 1916-1923
• British Mandate of Palestine 1923-1948
• Palestinian Flag used in the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt
• Unidentified 1941 Palestinian Flag
• Jerusalem Civil Ensign 1333-1921

See also:

• State Flag in the French Echelles du Levant
• British Colonies
• Palestine

by António Martins

Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire and used the Ottoman flag.

Santiago Dotor, 18 October 2000

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by António Martins

The British took Jerusalem in December 1916. The allied supreme council created a British mandate on 25 April 1920 and the League of Nations approved it 24 July 1922. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, providing for a Jewish national home, applied to Palestine, but not Transjordan. Transjordan was separated from Palestine as an autonomous state on 26 May 1923.

T.F. Mills, 16 December 1997

Palestinian Flag used in the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt

José Manuel Erbez reported in the Spanish Vexilologia mailing list a varian