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The region of Palestine,Template:Efn-lr also known as historic Palestine,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> is a geographical area in West Asia. It includes the modern states of Israel and Palestine, as well as parts of northwestern Jordan in some definitions. Other names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land.

The earliest written record referring to Palestine as a geographical region is in the Histories of Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, which calls the area Palaistine, referring to the territory previously held by Philistia, a state that existed in that area from the 12th to the 7th century BCE. The Roman Empire conquered the region and in 6 CE established the province known as Judaea. In the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), the province was renamed Syria Palaestina.Template:Sfn In 390, during the Byzantine period, the region was split into the provinces of Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda, and Palaestina Tertia. Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, the military district of Jund Filastin was established. While Palestine's boundaries have changed throughout history, it has generally comprised the southern portion of regions such as Syria or the Levant.

As the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, Palestine has been a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. In the Bronze Age, it was home to Canaanite city-states; and the later Iron Age saw the emergence of Israel and Judah. It has since come under the sway of various empires, including the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Achaemenid Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the Seleucid Empire. The brief Hasmonean dynasty ended with its gradual incorporation into the Roman Empire, and later the Byzantine Empire, during which Palestine became a center of Christianity. In the 7th century, Palestine was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate, ending Byzantine rule in the region; Rashidun rule was succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Fatimid Caliphate. Following the collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had been established through the Crusades, the population of Palestine became predominantly Muslim. In the 13th century, it became part of the Mamluk Sultanate, and after 1516, spent four centuries as part of the Ottoman Empire.

During World War I, Palestine was occupied by the United Kingdom as part of the Sinai and Palestine campaign. Between 1919 and 1922, the League of Nations created the Mandate for Palestine, which came under British administration as Mandatory Palestine through the 1940s. Tensions between Jews and Arabs escalated into the 1947–1949 Palestine war, which ended with the establishment of Israel on most of the territory, and neighboring Jordan and Egypt controlling the West Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively. The 1967 Six-Day War saw Israel's occupation of both territories, which has been among the core issues of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

EtymologyEdit

Template:For timeline Template:Multiple image Modern archaeology has identified 12 ancient inscriptions from Egyptian and Assyrian records recording likely cognates of Hebrew Pelesheth. The term "Peleset" (transliterated from hieroglyphs as P-r-s-t) is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people or land starting from Template:Circa during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt. The first known mention is at the temple at Medinet Habu which refers to the Peleset among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and the last known is 300 years later on Padiiset's Statue. Seven known Assyrian inscriptions refer to the region of "Palashtu" or "Pilistu", beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in Template:Circa through to a treaty made by Esarhaddon more than a century later.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term.Template:Efn-lr

The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE ancient Greece,Template:Efn-lrTemplate:Efn-lr when Herodotus wrote in The Histories of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē" (Template:Langx),Template:Sfn which included the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley.Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lr Approximately a century later, Aristotle used a similar definition for the region in Meteorology, in which he included the Dead Sea.Template:Sfn Later Greek writers such as Polemon and Pausanias also used the term to refer to the same region, which was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Romano-Jewish writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.<ref name=Robinson /><ref>Louis H. Feldman, whose view differs from that of Robinson, thinks that Josephus, when referring to Palestine, had in mind only the coastal region, writing: "Writers on geography in the first century [CE] clearly differentiate Judaea from Palestine. ...Template:SpacesJewish writers, notably Philo and Josephus, with few exceptions refer to the land as Judaea, reserving the name Palestine for the coastal area occupied [formerly] by the Philistines." (END QUOTE). See: p. 1 in: Template:Harv.</ref> At the same time, many classical-era sources referred to the inland region inhabited by Jews as Judea, distinguishing it from the Philistine coastal area; during the first centuries of Roman rule, "Judaea" was also the official name of the province.Template:Sfn The term Palestine was first used to denote an official province in Template:Circa, when the Roman authorities, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, renamed the province of Judaea "Syria Palaestina". There is circumstantial evidence linking Hadrian with the name change,Template:Sfn but the precise date is not certain.Template:Sfn

The term is generally accepted to be a cognate of the biblical name Peleshet ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Pəlésheth, usually transliterated as Philistia). The term and its derivates are used more than 250 times in Masoretic-derived versions of the Hebrew Bible, of which 10 uses are in the Torah, with undefined boundaries, and almost 200 of the remaining references are in the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn<ref name=Robinson>Robinson, 1865, p.15: "Palestine, or Palestina, now the most common name for the Holy Land, occurs three times in the English version of the Old Testament; and is there put for the Hebrew name פלשת, elsewhere rendered Philistia. As thus used, it refers strictly and only to the country of the Philistines, in the southwest corner of the land. So, too, in the Greek form, Παλαςτίνη, it is used by Josephus. But both Josephus and Philo apply the name to the whole land of the Hebrews; and Greek and Roman writers employed it in the like extent."</ref>Template:Sfn The term is rarely used in the Septuagint, which used a transliteration Land of Phylistieim ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), different from the contemporary Greek place name Palaistínē ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).Template:Sfn It is also theorized to be the portmanteau of the Greek word for the Philistines and palaistês, which means "wrestler/rival/adversary".Template:Sfn This aligns with the Greek practice of punning place names, since the latter is part of the etymological meaning for Israel.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite book (tr. from Greek, with notes)</ref><ref>"Palestine and Israel", David M. Jacobson, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 313 (February 1999), pp. 65–74; "The Southern and Eastern Borders of Abar-Nahara," Steven S. Tuell, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 284 (November 1991), pp. 51–57; "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast", Anson F. Rainey, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 321 (February 2001), pp. 57–63; Herodotus, Histories</ref>

The Septuagint instead used the term "allophuloi" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "other nations") throughout the Books of Judges and Samuel,Template:Sfn<ref name=Drews49>Template:Harvnb: "Our names 'Philistia' and 'Philistines' are unfortunate obfuscations, first introduced by the translators of the LXX and made definitive by Jerome's Vg. When turning a Hebrew text into Greek, the translators of the LXX might simply—as Josephus was later to do—have Hellenized the Hebrew פְּלִשְׁתִּים as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, and the toponym פְּלִשְׁתִּ as Παλαιστίνη. Instead, they avoided the toponym altogether, turning it into an ethnonym. As for the ethnonym, they chose sometimes to transliterate it (incorrectly aspirating the initial letter, perhaps to compensate for their inability to aspirate the sigma) as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, a word that looked exotic rather than familiar, and more often to translate it as ά{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. Jerome followed the LXX's lead in eradicating the names, 'Palestine' and 'Palestinians', from his Old Testament, a practice adopted in most modern translations of the Bible."</ref> such that the term "Philistines" has been interpreted to mean "non-Israelites of the Promised Land" when used in the context of Samson, Saul and David,<ref name=Drews51>Template:Harvnb: "The LXX's regular translation of פְּלִשְׁתִּים into {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} is significant here. Not a proper name at all, allophyloi is a generic term, meaning something like 'people of other stock'. If we assume, as I think we must, that with their word allophyloi the translators of the LXX tried to convey in Greek what p'lištîm had conveyed in Hebrew, we must conclude that for the worshippers of Yahweh p'lištîm and b'nê yiśrā'ēl were mutually exclusive terms, p'lištîm (or allophyloi) being tantamount to 'non-Judaeans of the Promised Land' when used in a context of the third century BCE, and to 'non-Israelites of the Promised Land' when used in a context of Samson, Saul and David. Unlike an ethnonym, the noun פְּלִשְׁתִּים normally appeared without a definite article."</ref> and Rabbinic sources explain that these peoples were different from the Philistines of the Book of Genesis.Template:Efn-lr

During the Byzantine period, the region of Palestine within Syria Palaestina was subdivided into Palaestina Prima and Secunda,Template:Sfn and an area of land including the Negev and Sinai became Palaestina Salutaris.Template:Sfn Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic.Template:Sfn<ref name=Marshallp559>Marshall Cavendish, 2007, p. 559.</ref> The use of the name "Palestine" became common in Early Modern English,Template:Sfn was used in English and Arabic during the Mutasarrifate of JerusalemTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Efn-lr and was revived as an official place name with the British Mandate for Palestine.

Some other terms that have been used to refer to all or part of this land include Canaan, Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael or Ha'aretz),Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lrTemplate:Efn-lr the Promised Land, the region of Syria, the Holy Land, Iudaea Province, Judea, Coele-Syria,Template:Efn-lr "Israel HaShlema", Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Zion, Retenu (Ancient Egyptian), Southern Syria, Southern Levant and Syria Palaestina.

HistoryEdit

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OverviewEdit

Template:Main list Situated at a strategic location between Egypt, Syria and Arabia, and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, the region has a long and tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. The region has been controlled by numerous peoples, including ancient Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Achaemenids, ancient Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Sasanians, Byzantines, the Arab Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans, the British, and modern Israelis and Palestinians.Template:Citation needed Template:Timeline of Palestine Sovereign Powers

Ancient periodEdit

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Kingdoms of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age (Template:Circa)

The region was among the earliest in the world to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization.Template:Sfn In the late 4th millennium BCE, during the Early Bronze Age, there were areas of permanent Egyptian settlement in the southern Levant; land beyond these areas was inhabited by the Egyptians seasonally. The area of permanent settlement included Tell es-Sakan on the Mediterranean coast, which is the oldest known fortified Egyptian settlement and was likely the administrative centre of the region.Template:Sfn During the Bronze Age, independent Canaanite city-states were established, and were influenced by the surrounding civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Minoan Crete, and Syria. Between 1550 and 1400Template:SpacesBCE, the Canaanite cities became vassals to the Egyptian New Kingdom who held power until the 1178Template:SpacesBCE Battle of Djahy (Canaan) during the wider Bronze Age collapse.Template:Sfn

The Israelites emerged from a dramatic social transformation that took place in the people of the central hill country of Canaan around 1200Template:SpacesBCE, with no signs of violent invasion or even of peaceful infiltration of a clearly defined ethnic group from elsewhere.Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lr During the Iron Age, the Israelites established two related kingdoms, Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel emerged as an important local power by the 10th century BCE before falling to the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 722Template:SpacesBCE. Israel's southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Judah, emerged in the 8th or 9th century BCE and later became a client state of first the Neo-Assyrian and then the Neo-Babylonian Empire before a revolt against the latter led to its destruction in 586Template:SpacesBCE. The region became part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from Template:Circa,Template:Sfn which was itself replaced by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in Template:Circa.Template:Sfn

In 587/6Template:SpacesBCE, Jerusalem was besieged and destroyed by the second Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar II,Template:Efn-lr who subsequently exiled the Judeans to Babylon. The Kingdom of Judah was then annexed as a Babylonian province. The Philistines were also exiled. The defeat of Judah was recorded by the Babylonians.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

In 539Template:SpacesBCE, the Babylonian empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. According to the Hebrew Bible and implications from the Cyrus Cylinder, the exiled Jews were eventually allowed to return to Jerusalem.Template:Sfn The returned population in Judah were allowed to self-rule under Persian governance, and some parts of the fallen kingdom became a Persian province known as Yehud.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Except Yehud, at least another four Persian provinces existed in the region: Samaria, Gaza, Ashdod, and Ascalon, in addition to the Phoenician city states in the north and the Arabian tribes in the south.Template:Sfn During the same period, the Edomites migrated from Transjordan to the southern parts of Judea, which became known as Idumaea.Template:Sfn The Qedarites were the dominant Arab tribe; their territory ran from the Hejaz in the south to the Negev in the north through the period of Persian and Hellenistic dominion.Template:Sfn<ref>David F. Graf, 'Petra and the Nabataeans in the Early Hellenistic Period: the literary and archaeological evidence,' in Michel Mouton, Stephan G. Schmid (eds.), Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabataean Petra, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2013 pp.35–55 pp.47–48: 'the Idumean texts indicate that a large portion of the community in southern Palestine were Arabs, many of whom have names similar to those in the "Nabataean" onomasticon of later periods.' (p.47).</ref>

Classical antiquityEdit

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Caesarea Maritima, also known as Caesarea Palestinae, built under Herod the Great at the site of a former Phoenician naval station, became the capital city of Roman Judea, Roman Syria Palaestina and Byzantine Palaestina Prima provinces.<ref>"Founded in the years 22-10 or 9 B.C. by Herod the Great, close to the ruins of a small Phoenician naval station named Strato's Tower (Stratonos Pyrgos, Turns Stratonis), which flourished during the 3d to 1st c. B.C. This small harbor was situated on the N part of the site. Herod dedicated the new town and its port (limen Sebastos) to Caesar Augustus. During the Early Roman period Caesarea was the seat of the Roman procurators of the province of Judea. Vespasian, proclaimed emperor at Caesarea, raised it to the rank of Colonia Prima Flavia Augusta, and later Alexander Severus raised it to the rank of Metropolis Provinciae Syriae Palestinae." A. Negev, "CAESAREA MARITIMA Palestine, Israel" in: Richard Stillwell et al. (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976).</ref>

In the 330s BCE, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered the region, which changed hands several times during the wars of the Diadochi and later Syrian Wars. It ultimately fell to the Seleucid Empire between 219 and 200Template:SpacesBCE. During that period, the region became heavily hellenized, building tensions between Greeks and locals.

In 167Template:SpacesBCE, the Maccabean Revolt erupted, leading to the establishment of an independent Hasmonean Kingdom in Judea. From 110Template:SpacesBCE, the Hasmoneans extended their authority over much of Palestine, including Samaria, Galilee, Iturea, Perea, and Idumea.Template:Sfn The Jewish control over the wider region resulted in it also becoming known as Judaea, a term that had previously only referred to the smaller region of the Judaean Mountains.Template:Efn-lr<ref>Ben-Sasson, p.226, "The name Judea no longer referred only toTemplate:Spaces..."</ref> During the same period, the Edomites were converted to Judaism.Template:Sfn

Between 73 and 63Template:SpacesBCE, the Roman Republic extended its influence into the region in the Third Mithridatic War. Pompey conquered Judea in 63Template:SpacesBCE, splitting the former Hasmonean Kingdom into five districts. In around 40Template:SpacesBCE, the Parthians conquered Palestine, deposed the Roman ally Hyrcanus II, and installed a puppet ruler of the Hasmonean line known as Antigonus II.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn By 37Template:SpacesBCE, the Parthians withdrew from Palestine.Template:Sfn

Palestine is generally considered the "Cradle of Christianity".Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Christianity, a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, arose as a messianic sect from within Second Temple Judaism. The three-year Ministry of Jesus, culminating in his crucifixion, is estimated to have occurred from 28 to 30Template:SpacesCE, although the historicity of Jesus is disputed by a minority of scholars.Template:Efn-lr

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Model of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, after being rebuilt by Herod. It was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE during the First Jewish-Roman War.Template:Sfn

In the first and second centuries CE, the province of Judea became the site of two large-scale Jewish revolts against Rome. During the First Jewish-Roman War, which lasted from 66 to 73Template:SpacesCE, the Romans razed Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple.Template:Sfn In Masada, Jewish zealots reportedly preferred to commit suicide than endure Roman captivity. In 132Template:SpacesCE, another Jewish rebellion erupted. The Bar Kokhba revolt took three years to put down, incurred massive costs on both the Romans and the Jews, and desolated much of Judea.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The center of Jewish life in Palestine moved to the Galilee.<ref>Template:Harvnb: The entire spiritual and economic life of the Palestinian Jews moved to Galilee. Template:Harvnb: Galilee became the all-important focus of Jewish life</ref> After the revolt, the Romans enacted a few punitive measures, including restrictions on Jewish religion and practice,Template:Sfn and forbade Jews from inhabiting the area surrounding Jerusalem.Template:Sfn The city was rebuilt as a Roman colony called Aelia Capitolina. Around this time, the Roman authorities renamed the province of Judaea as Syria Palaestina—an act that, according to the prevailing scholarly view,Template:Sfn was intended to sever the symbolic and historical connection between the Jewish people and the land.<ref name=":3">Template:Citation</ref>Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Other interpretations have also been proposed.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Between 259 and 272, the region fell under the rule of Odaenathus as King of the Palmyrene Empire. Following the victory of Christian emperor Constantine in the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy, the Christianization of the Roman Empire began, and in 326, Constantine's mother Saint Helena visited Jerusalem and began the construction of churches and shrines. Palestine became a center of Christianity, attracting numerous monks and religious scholars. The Samaritan Revolts during this period caused their near extinction. In 614Template:SpacesCE, Palestine was annexed by another Persian dynasty; the Sassanids, until returning to Byzantine control in 628Template:SpacesCE.<ref>Greatrex-Lieu (2002), II, 196</ref>

Early Muslim periodEdit

Template:Multiple image Palestine was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate, beginning in 634Template:SpacesCE.Template:Sfn In 636, the Battle of Yarmouk during the Muslim conquest of the Levant marked the start of Muslim hegemony over the region, which became known as the military district of Jund Filastin within the province of Bilâd al-Shâm (Greater Syria).Template:Sfn In 661, with the Assassination of Ali, Muawiyah I became the Caliph of the Islamic world after being crowned in Jerusalem.Template:Sfn The Dome of the Rock, completed in 691, was the world's first great work of Islamic architecture.<ref>Brown, 2011, p. 122: 'the first great Islamic architectural achievement.'</ref>

The majority of the population was Christian and was to remain so until the conquest of Saladin in 1187. The Muslim conquest apparently had little impact on social and administrative continuities for several decades.Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lr<ref>O'Mahony, 2003, p. 14: 'Before the Muslim conquest, the population of Palestine was overwhelmingly Christian, albeit with a sizeable Jewish community.'</ref>Template:Efn-lr The word 'Arab' at the time referred predominantly to Bedouin nomads, though Arab settlement is attested in the Judean highlands and near Jerusalem by the 5th century, and some tribes had converted to Christianity.Template:Sfn The local population engaged in farming, which was considered demeaning, and were called Nabaț, referring to Aramaic-speaking villagers. A ḥadīth, brought in the name of a Muslim freedman who settled in Palestine, ordered the Muslim Arabs not to settle in the villages, "for he who abides in villages it is as if he abides in graves".Template:Sfn

The Umayyads, who had spurred a strong economic resurgence in the area,Template:Sfn were replaced by the Abbasids in 750. Ramla became the administrative centre for the following centuries, while Tiberias became a thriving centre of Muslim scholarship.Template:Sfn From 878, Palestine was ruled from Egypt by semi-autonomous rulers for almost a century, beginning with the Turkish freeman Ahmad ibn Tulun, for whom both Jews and Christians prayed when he lay dyingTemplate:Sfn and ending with the Ikhshidid rulers. Reverence for Jerusalem increased during this period, with many of the Egyptian rulers choosing to be buried there.Template:Efn-lr However, the later period became characterized by persecution of Christians as the threat from Byzantium grew.Template:Sfn The Fatimids, with a predominantly Berber army, conquered the region in 970, a date that marks the beginning of a period of unceasing warfare between numerous enemies, which destroyed Palestine, and in particular, devastating its Jewish population.Template:Sfn Between 1071 and 1073, Palestine was captured by the Great Seljuq Empire,Template:Sfn only to be recaptured by the Fatimids in 1098.Template:Sfn

Crusader/Ayyubid periodEdit

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The Hospitaller fortress in Acre was destroyed in 1291 and partially rebuilt in the 18th century.

The Fatimids again lost the region to the Crusaders in 1099. The Crusaders set up<ref>Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Penguin: 2006), pp. 201–202</ref> the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291).Template:Sfn Their control of Jerusalem and most of Palestine lasted almost a century until their defeat by Saladin's forces in 1187,Template:Sfn after which most of Palestine was controlled by the Ayyubids,Template:Sfn except for the years 1229–1244 when Jerusalem and other areas were retakenTemplate:Sfn by the Second Kingdom of Jerusalem, by then ruled from Acre (1191–1291), but, despite seven further crusades, the Franks were no longer a significant power in the region.Template:Sfn The Fourth Crusade, which did not reach Palestine, led directly to the decline of the Byzantine Empire, dramatically reducing Christian influence throughout the region.Template:Sfn

Mamluk periodEdit

The Mamluk Sultanate was created in Egypt as an indirect result of the Seventh Crusade.Template:Sfn The Mongol Empire reached Palestine for the first time in 1260, beginning with the Mongol raids into Palestine under Nestorian Christian general Kitbuqa, and reaching an apex at the pivotal Battle of Ain Jalut, where they were pushed back by the Mamluks.Template:Sfn

Ottoman periodEdit

Template:Further In 1486, hostilities broke out between the Mamluks and the Ottoman Empire in a battle for control over western Asia, and the Ottomans conquered Palestine in 1516.Template:Sfn Between the mid-16th and 17th centuries, a close-knit alliance of three local dynasties, the Ridwans of Gaza, the Turabays of al-Lajjun and the Farrukhs of Nablus, governed Palestine on behalf of the Porte (imperial Ottoman government).Template:Sfn

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The Khan al-Umdan, constructed in Acre in 1784, is the largest and best preserved caravanserai in the region.

In the 18th century, the Zaydani clan under the leadership of Zahir al-Umar ruled large parts of Palestine autonomouslyTemplate:Sfn until the Ottomans were able to defeat them in their Galilee strongholds in 1775–76.Template:Sfn Zahir had turned the port city of Acre into a major regional power, partly fueled by his monopolization of the cotton and olive oil trade from Palestine to Europe. Acre's regional dominance was further elevated under Zahir's successor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar at the expense of Damascus.Template:Sfn

In 1830, on the eve of Muhammad Ali's invasion,Template:Sfn the Porte transferred control of the sanjaks of Jerusalem and Nablus to Abdullah Pasha, the governor of Acre. According to Silverburg, in regional and cultural terms this move was important for creating an Arab Palestine detached from greater Syria (bilad al-Sham).Template:Sfn According to Pappe, it was an attempt to reinforce the Syrian front in face of Muhammad Ali's invasion.Template:Sfn Two years later, Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt,Template:Sfn but Egyptian rule was challenged in 1834 by a countrywide popular uprising against conscription and other measures considered intrusive by the population.Template:Sfn Its suppression devastated many of Palestine's villages and major towns.Template:Sfn

In 1840, Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations.Template:Sfn The death of Aqil Agha marked the last local challenge to Ottoman centralization in Palestine,Template:Sfn and beginning in the 1860s, Palestine underwent an acceleration in its socio-economic development, due to its incorporation into the global, and particularly European, economic pattern of growth. The beneficiaries of this process were Arabic-speaking Muslims and Christians who emerged as a new layer within the Arab elite.Template:Sfn From 1880 large-scale Jewish immigration began, almost entirely from Europe, based on an explicitly Zionist ideology.Template:Citation needed There was also a revival of the Hebrew language and culture.Template:Efn-lr

Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom preceded its spread within the Jewish community.Template:Sfn The government of Great Britain publicly supported it during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917.Template:Sfn

British Mandate periodEdit

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The British began their Sinai and Palestine Campaign in 1915.Template:Sfn The war reached southern Palestine in 1917, progressing to Gaza and around Jerusalem by the end of the year.Template:Sfn The British secured Jerusalem in December 1917.Template:Sfn They moved into the Jordan valley in 1918 and a campaign by the Entente into northern Palestine led to victory at Megiddo in September.Template:Sfn

The British were formally awarded the mandate to govern the region in 1922.Template:Sfn The Arab Palestinians rioted in 1920, 1921, 1929, and revolted in 1936.Template:Sfn In 1947, following World War II and The Holocaust, the British Government announced its desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly adopted in November 1947 a Resolution 181(II) recommending partition into an Arab state, a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem.Template:Sfn A civil war began immediately after the Resolution's adoption. The State of Israel was declared in May 1948.Template:Sfn

Arab–Israeli conflictEdit

Template:Further In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel captured and incorporated a further 26% of the Mandate territory, Jordan captured the regions of Judea and Samaria,Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lrTemplate:Sfn renaming it the "West Bank", while the Gaza Strip was captured by Egypt.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Following the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, also known as al-Nakba, the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes were not allowed to return following the Lausanne Conference of 1949.Template:Sfn

In the course of the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel captured the rest of Mandate Palestine from Jordan and Egypt, and began a policy of establishing Jewish settlements in those territories. From 1987 to 1993, the First Palestinian Intifada against Israel took place, which included the Declaration of the State of Palestine in 1988 and ended with the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords and the creation of the Palestinian National Authority.

In 2000, the Second Intifada (also called al-Aqsa Intifada) began, and Israel built a separation barrier. In the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza, Israel withdrew all settlers and military presence from the Gaza Strip, but maintained military control of numerous aspects of the territory including its borders, air space and coast. Israel's ongoing military occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem continues to be the world's longest military occupation in modern times.Template:Efn-lrTemplate:Efn-lr

In 2008 Palestinian hikaye was inscribed to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage; the first of four listings reflecting the significance of Palestinian culture globally.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref>

In November 2012, the status of Palestinian delegation in the United Nations was upgraded to non-member observer state as the State of Palestine.Template:SfnTemplate:Efn-lr

BoundariesEdit

Pre-modern periodEdit

The boundaries of Palestine have varied throughout history.Template:Efn-lrTemplate:Efn-lr The Jordan Rift Valley (comprising Wadi Arabah, the Dead Sea and River Jordan) has at times formed a political and administrative frontier, even within empires that have controlled both territories.Template:Sfn At other times, such as during certain periods during the Hasmonean and Crusader states for example, as well as during the biblical period, territories on both sides of the river formed part of the same administrative unit. During the Arab Caliphate period, parts of southern Lebanon and the northern highland areas of Palestine and Jordan were administered as Jund al-Urdun, while the southern parts of the latter two formed part of Jund Dimashq, which during the 9th century was attached to the administrative unit of Jund Filastin.Template:Sfn

The boundaries of the area and the ethnic nature of the people referred to by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE as Palaestina vary according to context. Sometimes, he uses it to refer to the coast north of Mount Carmel. Elsewhere, distinguishing the Syrians in Palestine from the Phoenicians, he refers to their land as extending down all the coast from Phoenicia to Egypt.Template:Sfn Pliny, writing in Latin in the 1st century CE, describes a region of Syria that was "formerly called Palaestina" among the areas of the Eastern Mediterranean.<ref>Pliny, Natural History V.66 and 68.</ref>

Since the Byzantine Period, the Byzantine borders of Palaestina (I and II, also known as Palaestina Prima, "First Palestine", and Palaestina Secunda, "Second Palestine"), have served as a name for the geographic area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Under Arab rule, Filastin (or Jund Filastin) was used administratively to refer to what was under the Byzantines Palaestina Secunda (comprising Judaea and Samaria), while Palaestina Prima (comprising the Galilee region) was renamed Urdunn ("Jordan" or Jund al-Urdunn).Template:Sfn

Modern periodEdit

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Satellite image of the region

Nineteenth-century sources refer to Palestine as extending from the sea to the caravan route, presumably the Hejaz-Damascus route east of the Jordan River valley.Template:Sfn Others refer to it as extending from the sea to the desert.Template:Sfn Prior to the Allied Powers victory in World War I and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, which created the British mandate in the Levant, most of the northern area of what is today Jordan formed part of the Ottoman Vilayet of Damascus (Syria), while the southern part of Jordan was part of the Vilayet of Hejaz.Template:Sfn What later became Mandatory Palestine was in late Ottoman times divided between the Vilayet of Beirut (Lebanon) and the Sanjak of Jerusalem.<ref name=Risalesi /> The Zionist Organization provided its definition of the boundaries of Palestine in a statement to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The British administered Mandatory Palestine after World War I, having promised to establish a homeland for the Jewish people. The modern definition of the region follows the boundaries of that entity, which were fixed in the North and East in 1920–23 by the British Mandate for Palestine (including the Transjordan memorandum) and the Paulet–Newcombe Agreement,Template:Sfn and on the South by following the 1906 Turco-Egyptian boundary agreement.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Template:Scrollable

Current usageEdit

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The region of Palestine is the eponym for the Palestinian people and the culture of Palestine, both of which are defined as relating to the whole historical region, usually defined as the localities within the border of Mandatory Palestine. The 1968 Palestinian National Covenant described Palestine as the "homeland of the Arab Palestinian people", with "the boundaries it had during the British Mandate".Template:Sfn

However, since the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the term State of Palestine refers only to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This discrepancy was described by the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas as a negotiated concession in a September 2011 speech to the United Nations: "... we agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine – on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967."Template:Sfn

The term Palestine is also sometimes used in a limited sense to refer to the parts of the Palestinian territories currently under the administrative control of the Palestinian National Authority, a quasi-governmental entity which governs parts of the State of Palestine under the terms of the Oslo Accords.Template:Efn-lr

AdministrationEdit

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DemographicsEdit

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Early demographicsEdit

Year Jews Christians Muslims Total
First half 1st century CE Majority – – ~2,500
5th century Minority Majority – >1st C
End 12th century Minority Minority Majority >225
14th century before Black Death Minority Minority Majority 225
14th century after Black Death Minority Minority Majority 150
Historical population table compiled by Sergio DellaPergola.Template:Sfn Figures in thousands.

Estimating the population of Palestine in antiquity relies on two methods – censuses and writings made at the times, and the scientific method based on excavations and statistical methods that consider the number of settlements at the particular age, area of each settlement, density factor for each settlement.

The Bar Kokhba revolt in the 2nd century CE saw a major shift in the population of Palestine. The sheer scale and scope of the overall destruction has been described by Dio Cassius in his Roman History, where he notes that Roman war operations in the country had left some 580,000 Jews dead, with many more dying of hunger and disease, while 50 of their most important outposts and 985 of their most famous villages were razed to the ground. "Thus," writes Dio Cassius, "nearly the whole of Judaea was made desolate."<ref>Dio's Roman History (trans. Earnest Cary), vol. 8 (books 61–70), Loeb Classical Library: London 1925, pp. 449–451</ref>Template:Sfn

According to Israeli archaeologists Magen Broshi and Yigal Shiloh, the population of ancient Palestine did not exceed one million.Template:Efn-lrTemplate:Efn-lr By 300Template:SpacesCE, Christianity had spread so significantly that Jews comprised only a quarter of the population.Template:Efn-lr

Late Ottoman and British Mandate periodsEdit

In a study of Ottoman registers of the early Ottoman rule of Palestine, Bernard Lewis reports:

[T]he first half century of Ottoman rule brought a sharp increase in population. The towns grew rapidly, villages became larger and more numerous, and there was an extensive development of agriculture, industry, and trade. The two last were certainly helped to no small extent by the influx of Spanish and other Western Jews.

From the mass of detail in the registers, it is possible to extract something like a general picture of the economic life of the country in that period. Out of a total population of about 300,000 souls, between a fifth and a quarter lived in the six towns of Jerusalem, Gaza, Safed, Nablus, Ramle, and Hebron. The remainder consisted mainly of peasants, living in villages of varying size, and engaged in agriculture. Their main food-crops were wheat and barley in that order, supplemented by leguminous pulses, olives, fruit, and vegetables. In and around most of the towns there was a considerable number of vineyards, orchards, and vegetable gardens.Template:Sfn

Year Jews Christians Muslims Total
1533–1539 5 6 145 157
1690–1691 2 11 219 232
1800 7 22 246 275
1890 43 57 432 532
1914 94 70 525 689
1922 84 71 589 752
1931 175 89 760 1,033
1947 630 143 1,181 1,970
Historical population table compiled by Sergio DellaPergola.Template:Sfn Figures in thousands.

According to Alexander Scholch, the population of Palestine in 1850 was about 350,000 inhabitants, 30% of whom lived in 13 towns; roughly 85% were Muslims, 11% were Christians and 4% Jews.Template:Sfn

According to Ottoman statistics studied by Justin McCarthy, the population of Palestine in the early 19th century was 350,000, in 1860 it was 411,000 and in 1900 about 600,000 of whom 94% were Arabs.Template:Sfn In 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim Arabs, 81,000 Christian Arabs, and 59,000 Jews.Template:Sfn McCarthy estimates the non-Jewish population of Palestine at 452,789 in 1882; 737,389 in 1914; 725,507 in 1922; 880,746 in 1931; and 1,339,763 in 1946.Template:Sfn

In 1920, the League of Nations' Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine described the 700,000 people living in Palestine as follows:Template:Sfn<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Of these, 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or—a small number—are Protestants.

The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850, there were in the country only a handful of Jews. In the following 30 years, a few hundreds came to Palestine. Most of them were animated by religious motives; they came to pray and to die in the Holy Land, and to be buried in its soil. After the persecutions in Russia forty years ago, the movement of the Jews to Palestine assumed larger proportions.{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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Current demographicsEdit

Template:See also According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Template:As of, the total population of Israel was 8.5Template:Spacesmillion people, of which 75% were Jews, 21% Arabs, and 4% "others".Template:Sfn Of the Jewish group, 76% were Sabras (born in Israel); the rest were olim (immigrants)—16% from Europe, the former Soviet republics, and the Americas, and 8% from Asia and Africa, including the Arab countries.Template:Sfn

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics evaluations, in 2015 the Palestinian population of the West Bank was approximately 2.9Template:Spacesmillion and that of the Gaza Strip was 1.8Template:Spacesmillion.Template:Sfn By 2022, the population of the Gaza strip had increased to an estimated 2,375,259,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> corresponding to a density of more than 6,507 people per square kilometre.

Both Israeli and Palestinian statistics include Arab residents of East Jerusalem in their reports.Template:SfnTemplate:Better source needed According to these estimates the total population in the region of Palestine, as defined as Israel and the Palestinian territories, stands approximately 12.8Template:Spacesmillion.Template:Citation needed

Flora and faunaEdit

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Flora distributionEdit

Template:See also The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions is widely used in recording the distribution of plants. The scheme uses the code "PAL" to refer to the region of Palestine – a Level 3 area. The WGSRPD's Palestine is further divided into Israel (PAL-IS), including the Palestinian territories, and Jordan (PAL-JO), so is larger than some other definitions of "Palestine".Template:Sfn Flora Palaestina used essentially the same geographical area, but included the Golan Heights.<ref name=Plit15>Template:Cite book</ref>

BirdsEdit

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