an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism | a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves |
a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 | the recipient of a mandate |
state combining the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and currently under Israeli occupation | |