User:Garycrobinson/Sandbox/Gazetteers/State of Palestine

Online Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places
 * World Gazetteers at Archive.org
 * Cities administered by the Palestinian Authority at Wikipedia
 * Cities in the State of Palestine at Wikipedia
 * Demographics of the State of Palestine at Wikipedia
 * Egypt and the Gaza Strip : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names United States. Board on Geographic Names, FamilySearch International, 1959
 * Facts and figures about Palestinian Territory at Places in the world
 * Gazetteer - Index of places Palestinian Territory at Places in the world
 * List of Palestine Locations at GeoNames
 * Maps Of Palestine at WorldAtlas
 * Outline of the State of Palestine at Wikipedia
 * Palestine - 10 Largest Cities at GeoNames
 * Palestine National Archives at Wikipedia
 * Palestinian Territories: Governorates, Major Cities at City Population
 * Religious Beliefs In Palestine at WorldAtlas
 * Universities and colleges in the State of Palestine at Wikipedia

Print Only Gazetteers

 * A gazetteer of buildings in Muslim Palestine Andrew Petersen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
 * Gazetteer of Roman Palestine Michael Avi-Yonah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, [Jerusalem], 1976
 * Palestine, index gazetteer Great Britain Army Middle East Forces, The Directorate, Cairo, 1945

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:
 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)