Sentence:  Being somewhat delicate in health , at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe , for which he at once developed a passion , so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad , at first in Italy , then in Greece , Egypt , Asia Minor , and <WSD>Palestine</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948