Modern Day Middle East Map

A selection of the sykes picot agreement map signed 8 may 1916.

Modern day middle east map. And israeli military have done a good job at stealing the show and though they certainly believe themselves to be the head of the show the reality is that this age of empire is the british and other western powers received a league of nations mandate after world war i to carve up the remains of the ottoman empire and virtually rewrite the map of the middle east. In modern terminology the term greater israel is meant by some to be the borders of modern israel plus the palestinian territories. He and his wife chris woolwine moen produced thousands of award winning maps that are used all over the world and content that aids students teachers travelers and parents with their geography and map questions. Encyclopedia of jewish and israeli history politics and culture with biographies statistics articles and documents on topics from anti semitism to zionism.

A century later their legacy is a disaster. This page was last updated on june 16 2020. In the same day the lord made a covenant with abram saying unto thy seed have i given this land from the river of egypt unto the great river the river euphrates. The middle east is a term traditionally applied by western europeans to the countries of sw asia and ne africa lying w of afghanistan pakistan and india.

Modern day middle east map. The area was viewed as midway between europe and east asia traditionally. The map that created the modern middle east the sykes picot remade the middle east for british and french control.