Mawat land doctrine
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mawat-land-doctrine-213-3596949
title:
Mawat land doctrine
text:
"Mawat" was an Ottoman legal category used to classify lands as unused ("dead") land, and thus as state land. This legal category is related to the terra nullius concept, used during the colonial period to classify "land without a sovereign." Critics refer to the interpretation of this legal category by the State of Israel as the Mawat land doctrine, under which many Palestinians, particularly in the Negev, were dispossessed based on this legal basis. An alternative term fo this is, therefore, t
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description:
Ottoman land code defining land belonging to the state
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawat_land_doctrine
date created:
2021-10-14T17:00:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T08:48:01Z
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