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RU-IVRRAN
Title
The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO)
Date(s)
- 1620 - 1934-01-15 (Creation)
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Fonds
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3 folders and 1 collection of photographs, organised into 44 files including 143 selected and described items
Context area
Name of creator
(From 1882)
Administrative history
The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian: Императорское православное палестинское общество), founded in 1882, is a scholarly organization for the study of the Middle East. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the society was renamed the Russian Palestine Society (Russian: Российское Палестинское Общество) and attached to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Its original name was restored by the society on 22 May 1992.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
June 2017
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- English
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Archivist's note
Author : Lora A. Gerd (Historian, Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) http://iib-ac.academia.edu/LoraGerd