to enjoy liturgical honors in Mandatory Palestine until 1924, when the honors were abolished. The precise boundaries of all territories, including that of the British Mandate for Palestine, were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers". During that time, the British were in control of Palestine and the France was given control of Syria and Lebanon, and a mandate. See also French claims in Jerusalem Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire References Mandatory Palestine Properties of the Holy See