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To: TimF who wrote (143592)	3/27/2002 4:15:18 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583902

Many years before the crusades Byzantium ruled the area. Then Muslims conquered it. During the crusades there where a few (I think 3 or 4) small Christian kingdoms set up in the area. They where all eventually conquered by the followers of Islam. The area changed hands between different Islamic countries/empires. From 1517-1917 it was under the Ottoman empire. The British too it over in after WWI, and where granted a Leage of Nations Madate over the area. In 1923 the British split the mandate of Palesine in to two administrative districts one of which became Trans-Jordan (and later just Jordan) and the other of which was still called Palestine. Tim, thanks for the history lesson. I thought Britain got it earlier than WWI. ted