The boundaries of Palestine were drawn by the British and first included modern Jordan, which was removed from the territory by Churchill a few years later.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

In 1965 Saudi Arabia and Jordan agreed to boundary demarcations involving an exchange of small areas of territory that gave Jordan some essential additional land near Aqaba, its only port.

* Filistin ( Palestine ), consisting of Judaea, Samaria and a portion of the territory east of Jordan ; its capital was Ramleh, Jerusalem ranking next.

Jordan recognizes the Palestinian Authority as sovereign in the territory.

The modern-day countries with significant territory within the Fertile Crescent are Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories, besides the southeastern fringe of Turkey and the western fringe of Iran.

The ensuing decisions, most notably the Sykes – Picot Agreement gave birth to the French Mandate for Syria and British Mandate for Palestine, the latter of which included the territory of Transjordan which had been allocated to Abdullah I of Jordan approximately a year prior to the finalisation of the Mandate document.

Other Arab governments attempted to work out a peaceful solution, but by September, continuing fedayeen actions in Jordan — including the destruction of three international airliners hijacked and held in the desert east of Amman — prompted the government to take action to regain control over its territory and population.

No fighting occurred along the 1967 Jordan River cease-fire line during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but Jordan sent a brigade to Syria to fight Israeli units on Syrian territory.

The US also assumed Jordan would receive the bulk of the West Bank as that was regarded as Jordanian territory.

The US would use its influence to obtain compensation to Jordan for any territory it would be required to give up.

On the following day, the Palestinian Arabs, assisted by Arab States, entered into a state of hostilities against Israel when the Arab League forces under the command of King Abdullah I of Jordan entered the Palestine Mandated area into the territory allotted for the Arab partition.

UNTSO's activities have been and still are spread over territory within five States, and therefore it has relations with five host countries -- Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syrian Arab Republic.

In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture.

The territory allotted to the tribe in Canaan was in the extreme north, and was bordered on the north by the Litani River, on the east by the River Jordan until it was south of the Sea of Galilee, on the west by the tribes of Asher and Zabulon ; and on the south by the tribe of Issachar.

The territory allocated to the Tribe of Ephraim was at the center of Canaan, west of the Jordan, south of the territory of Manasseh, and north of the Tribe of Benjamin.

The negotiations led to the inclusion into the Palestine territory of the whole Sea of Galilee, both sides of the River Jordan, Lake Hula, Dan spring, and part of the Yarmouk.

At its height, the territory it occupied spanned the Jordan River, forming two " half-tribes ", one on each side ; the eastern half-tribe was almost entirely discontiguous with the western half-tribe, only slightly touching at one corner-the south west of the eastern half-tribe and north east of the western half-tribe.

After Ahaz paid tribute to Tiglath-Pileser Tiglath-Pileser sacked Damascus and Israel, annexing Aram and territory of the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh in Gilead ( east of the Jordan River ) including the desert outposts of Jetur, Naphish and Nodab.

The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the Amorites, divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions: The enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon, ( referred to as " field of Moab ") the more open rolling country north of the Arnon, opposite Jericho, and up to the hills of Gilead ( called the " land of Moab ") and the district below sea level in the tropical depths of the Jordan valley.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as, an exonym meaning " ancient enemies " although it is now used in the term " ancient people, or " ancient ones.

After 1945 this territory around Königsberg was turned into Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, where amber is now systematically mined.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

Their former territory was now called deserta Boiorum ( deserta meaning ' empty or sparsely populated lands ').

On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

The territory now forming Ontario was originally part of Quebec, and thus was under the civil law.

Location of Sahelanthropus tchadensis find in 2002. The territory now known as Chad possesses some of the richest archaeological sites in Africa.

In 1549, the institution of the Audiencia in Santa Fe de Bogotá gave that city the status of capital of New Granada, which comprised in large part what is now territory of Colombia.

In the 7th century, Dál Riata was the first territory in what is now the UK to conduct a census.

He never officially founded a city in the territory of what is now present Chile.

As governor of Fort St. George, Yale purchased territory for private purposes with East India Company funds, including a fort at Tevnapatam ( now Cuddalore ).

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

However, it was the British, who after initially establishing bases at Jesselton, Kuching, Penang and Singapore, ultimately secured their hegemony across the territory that is now Malaysia.

The abandonment of this northern territory is now usually placed in the late 2nd c. BC, around the time of the first Germanic incursions into the Roman world, when the Tigurini and Toygenoi / Toutonoi are mentioned as participants in the great raids.

The Helvetii now chose the more difficult northern route through the Sequani territory, which traversed the Jura Mountains, but bypassed the Provincia.

The territory of what is now Albania was invaded by Serbia in the north and Greece in the south, restricting the country to only a patch of land around the southern coastal city of Vlora.

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

The Alaska Interior covers most of the U. S. state's territory.

The territory covers 780, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group, and fifteen other reef / island groups.

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

Excluding disputed territory, the archipelago covers about 377, 000 square kilometers.

The history of Mali covers events on the territory of modern Mali from about the 11th century to the present.

3G network covers 94 percent of the population, but only covers 14 percent of the territory.

The continental territory covers 30, 627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5 % of the territory of France.

The Open Skies regime covers the territory over which the State Party exercises sovereignty, including land, islands, and internal and territorial waters.

This article covers the history of the territory which is today part of the Republic of Sudan.

The new album deal covers the North America territory, where Gabriel is currently out of contract.

Astana is located in central Kazakhstan on the Ishim River in a very flat, semi-arid steppe region which covers most of the country's territory.

This network also provides wireless mobile Internet connections as well, and covers the entire territory.

The territory of the South Island covers and is influenced by a temperate climate.

The province covers approximately 73 % of the territory of the ROC, with around 40 % of the total population.

The Guadiana covers a length of 76 kilometres, 818 kilometres of travel distance, of which 578 kilometres are within Spanish territory, 140 kilometres within Portugal, while 100 kilometres are shared between the two nations ; 81. 9 % of its basin is in Spain ( 55, 513 km² ) and 17. 1 % is in Portugal ( 11, 620 km² ).

Administratively it lies within the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, the appropriately named " Mouths of the Rhône ", and covers parts of the territory of the communes of Arles – the largest commune in Metropolitan France, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer – the second largest – and Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône.

The territory covers the eastern portion of the Labrador peninsula.

The Sahel covers parts of the territory of ( from west to east ) Northern part of Senegal, southern part of Mauritania, middle part of Mali, southern part of Algeria and Niger, middle part of Chad, southern part of Sudan, northern part of South Sudan and Eritrea.

The town's territory covers an area of 38. 97 km², which makes Stralsund, with its 57, 670 inhabitants () one of the most densely populated towns in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( 1, 480 inhabitants per km² ).

The local zip code mailing address of " Greater Upper Marlboro ", however, covers of territory and includes additional areas west and south of the red area, extending from the Capital Beltway ( Largo, Westphalia, and New Orchard areas ) on the west to the Patuxent River / county line on the east, and far southward into the rural Croom and Nottingham, Naylor, and Rosaryville areas ( greatly below the map's red area ).

Literally meaning " village ", this wijk covers mostly the territory of the pre-existing village of Zoetermeer, with the central Dorpstraat ( village street ) with historic buildings serving as a shopping and recreation area.

Great Neck is a region on Long Island that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes villages of Great Neck, the village of Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.