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Beersheba Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “administrative district”. Today it says “one of the subdistricts of mandatory palestine”.
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Administrative division of British Palestine (1920–1948) Today part of Israel ( Southern District ) Gaza Strip The Beersheba Subdistrict ( Arabic : قضاء بئر السبع ; Hebrew : נפת באר שבע ) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine . It was located in modern-day southern Israel . The city of Beersheba was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , the subdistrict largely transformed into the Beersheba Subdistrict of Israel. The vast majority of the population, approximately 90%, consisted of nomadic Palestinian Bedouins .
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Then
administrative district
Now
one of the subdistricts of mandatory palestine
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