Cisjordania is the neo-Latin name for the West Bank, a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant region of Western Asia that forms the main bulk of the Palestinian territories. It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north. The name Cisjordania means "on this side of the River Jordan" in Romance languages and in Hungarian. The term is not commonly used in English, where the standard usage for this geopolitical entity is the West Bank. The West Bank was under Turkish rule from 1517 through 1917, as part of Ottoman Syria. At the 1920 San Remo conference, the victorious Allies of World War I allocated the area to the British Mandate of Palestine (1920–1948). The West Bank was occupied by Jordan from 1948 to 1967, and then by Israel after the Six-Day War. Under a series of agreements known as the Oslo Accords signed between 1993 and 1999, Israel transferred to the newly created Palestinian Authority (PA) security and civilian responsibility for many Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.