Sejarah dan geografi Palestin yang panjang (zaman purba, zaman pertengahan dan zaman moden)

The long history and geography of Palestine (ancient, medieval and modern)

...tertanam jauh dalam ingatan sosial dan budaya di Eropah dan dunia Arab. Pada tahun 1890, sejarawan Jerman Gustav Reinhold Röhricht, dalam Bibliotheca Geographica Palestine, menyenaraikan 3515 buku yang diterbitkan dalam pelbagai bahasa antara tahun 333

are deeply ingrained in the social and cultural memory of Europe and the Arab world. In 1890 German historian Gustav Reinhold Röhricht, in Bibliotheca Geographica Palestine, listed 3515 books issued in many languages between 333

AD dan 1878 AD yang membahas geografi Palestin. Karya Röhricht juga memuat senarai kronologi peta-peta yang berkaitan dengan Palestin.

AD and 1878 AD which dealt with the geography of Palestine. Röhricht’s work also contains a chronological list of maps relating to Palestine.

Keterlibatan dengan sejarah, geografi dan kartografi Palestin juga jelas kelihatan dalam penerbitan National Geographic, yang dahulunya dikenali sebagai National Geographic Magazine, majalah rasmi National Geographic Society yang berpusat di Washington, DC. NGS ialah salah sebuah institusi saintifik dan pendidikan bukan untuk keuntungan yang terbesar di dunia. Minatnya merangkumi geografi, sejarah, arkeologi dan sains semula jadi. National Geographic telah diterbitkan secara berterusan sejak keluaran pertamanya pada tahun 1888. Arkib majalah ini menunjukkan tumpuan yang besar terhadap kartografi, sejarah dan arkeologi Palestin bersejarah (purba dan moden). ‘Peta Palestin’ bersejarah (tiada sebutan ‘Peta Kanaan’) yang diterbitkan oleh National Geographic (yang tidak diketahui sebagai pro-Palestin) menghasilkan tajuk-tajuk berikut: ‘Impressions of Palestine’, 1 Mac 1915 (‘Bekas Duta British ke Amerika Syarikat, James Bryce, menceritakan tanggapannya tentang Palestin yang majoritinya beragama Islam’); ‘Jerusalem’s Locust Plague: Being a Description of the Recent Locust Influx into Palestine, and Comparing Same with Ancient Locust Invasions as Narrated in the Old World’s History Book, the Bible’, 1

Preoccupation with the history, geography and cartography of Palestine was also evident in the publications of the National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, the official magazine of the National Geographic Society, based in Washington, DC. The NGS is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, history, archaeology and natural sciences. The National Geographic has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888. The archives of the magazine show a huge focus on the cartography, history and archaeology of historic Palestine (ancient and modern). The historic ‘Palestine Maps’ (no mention of ‘Maps of Canaan’) of the National Geographic (not known to be particularly pro-Palestinian) produced the following titles: ‘Impressions of Palestine’, 1 March 1915 (‘Former British Ambassador to the U.S., James Bryce, relates his impressions of a predominantly Muslim Palestine’); ‘Jerusalem’s Locust Plague: Being a Description of the Recent Locust Influx into Palestine, and Comparing Same with Ancient Locust Invasions as Narrated in the Old World’s History Book, the Bible’, 1

Disember 1915 ('John D. Whiting membandingkan serangan belalang baru-baru ini di Palestin dan Syria dengan wabak belalang purba yang digambarkan dalam Bible'); 'Among the Bethlehem Shepherds: A Visit to the Valley Which David Probably Recalled When He Wrote the Twenty-third Psalm', 1 Disember 1926

December 1915 (‘John D. Whiting compares the recent invasion of locusts in Palestine and Syria with the ancient locust plagues described in the Bible’); ‘Among the Bethlehem Shepherds: A Visit to the Valley Which David Probably Recalled When He Wrote the Twenty-third Psalm’, 1 December 1926

('Keluarga penggembala di Palestin hidup hampir sama seperti nenek moyang mereka; selalunya anak lelaki yang paling muda menjaga kambing biri-biri, dengan seruling dan tongkat di tangan'); ‘Palestin yang Berubah’, 1 April 1934 (‘Pengangkutan dan komunikasi yang lebih baik memberi ruang yang semakin besar kepada Palestin sebagai tanah yang kecil tetapi strategik, yang terus memainkan peranannya sebagai tempat pertemuan Timur dan Barat’); ‘Bom di Atas Tanah Alkitab’, 1 Ogos 1941

(‘Shepherd families of Palestine live much as their ancestors did; often the youngest boy tends the sheep, with flute and staff in hand’); ‘Changing Palestine’, 1 April 1934 (‘Improved transportation and communication give Palestine growing room as the small but strategic land continues its role as a meeting place for East and West’); ‘Bombs over Bible Lands’, 1 August 1941

(‘Di Syria, Palestin dan Iraq, tempat orang Rom, Babylon dan Assyria pernah berperang, Jerman dan Rusia bersaing merebut kawasan negara-negara kaya minyak, mengganggu tanah bersejarah dengan bom, pesawat dan tank’); ‘Palestin Hari Ini’, 1 Oktober 1946 (‘Di bawah kawalan Great Britain, Palestin bergelut menampung kemasukan pendatang. Bandar dan ladang yang semakin berkembang membentuk campuran yang janggal di tanah purba ini’); ‘Seorang Ahli Arkeologi Melihat Palestin’, 1 Disember 1947 (‘Pengarang menemui sejarah di setiap pelosok, di tanah purba yang telah menjadi medan konflik tanpa henti selama berkurun-kurun lamanya’)

(‘In Syria, Palestine, and Iraq, where Romans, Babylonians, and Assyrians once battled, Germany and Russia vie for control of the oil-rich nations, disrupting historic lands with bombs, planes, and tanks’); ‘Palestine Today’, 1 October 1946 (‘Under the control of Great Britain, Palestine struggles to cope with immigration. Growing cities and farms make a strange mix in the ancient land’); ‘An Archaeologist Looks at Palestine’, 1 December 1947 (‘The author encounters history at every turn, in an ancient land that has been a cockpit of unending conflict for many centuries’).