Occupied Enemy Territory South

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Occupied Enemy Territory South was a World War I-era British military-administered region carved out of former Ottoman lands in the Levant.

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Label Occurrences
Occupied Enemy Territory South canonical 2

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former political entity
military occupation administration
administeredBy British Army
administeredUnder British Egyptian Expeditionary Force
appliesToJurisdiction territories captured from the Ottoman Empire
appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction Mandatory Palestine
surface form: Palestine

parts of present-day Israel
parts of present-day Jordan
parts of present-day Palestine
southern Levant
capital Jerusalem
country United Kingdom
currency Egyptian pound
endTime 1920
followedBy British Mandate for Palestine
Emirate of Transjordan
French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
surface form: French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
formedFrom Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Palestine
Ottoman Syria
governingBody British military administration in Mesopotamia
surface form: British military administration in Palestine
hasHistoricalRole interim administration between Ottoman rule and mandate system
languageUsed Arabic
English
Hebrew
legalStatus military occupation
locatedIn Levant region
surface form: Levant

Middle East
partOf Allied occupation of the Ottoman Empire
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
partOfConflict World War I
precededBy Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Syria
reasonForAbolition establishment of civil mandate administrations
sharesBorderWith Egypt
Occupied Enemy Territory North
Sinai Peninsula
significantEvent British capture of Jerusalem
transition to League of Nations mandates
startTime 1917
timePeriod late 1910s
usedFor military governance of occupied territories

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Occupied Enemy Territory Administration appliesToJurisdiction Occupied Enemy Territory South
Occupied Enemy Territory North coordinateWith Occupied Enemy Territory South