Fonds RU-IVRRAN - The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO)

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RU-IVRRAN

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The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO)

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  • 1620 - 1934-01-15 (Creation)

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3 folders and 1 collection of photographs, organised into 44 files including 143 selected and described items

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(From 1882)

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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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      • እንግሊዝኛ

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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

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