Mandatory Palestine ( ; , where "EY" indicates "
Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a under British administration, carved out of
Ottoman Southern Syria after
World War I.
British civil administration in
Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948. During its existence it was known simply as Palestine, but, in retrospect, as distinguishers, a variety of other names and descriptors including Mandatory or Mandate Palestine, also British Palestine and the British Mandate of Palestine, have been used to refer to it.