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  2. History of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    In common usage from 1840 onward, "Palestine" was used either to describe the consular jurisdictions of the Western powers [412] or for a region that extended in the north–south direction typically from Rafah (south-east of Gaza) to the Litani River (now in Lebanon). The western boundary was the sea, and the eastern boundary was the poorly ...

  3. Timeline of the name Palestine - Wikipedia

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    1470: Al-Suyuti: [196] "Syria is divided into five provinces, or sections:— First, Palestine, so called because first inhabited by Philistin son of Kusin, son of Muti, son of Yūmán, son of Yasith, son of Noah. Its first frontier town is on the Egyptian road Rafah, or Al Arish: next to this is Gaza, then Ramula, or Ramlat Phalistin.

  4. Palestine (region) - Wikipedia

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    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, [v] [vi] when Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē" (Ancient Greek: Συρίη ἡ Παλαιστίνη καλεομένη) [12] in The Histories, which included the Judean mountains ...

  5. Origin of the Palestinians - Wikipedia

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    As recently as 2001, genetic research was incomplete enough that genetic scientists still cited theories about the roots of today's Palestinians' in present-day Israel/Palestine dating back only 1200 BC — in one theory, from Egyptian garrisons that were abandoned to their own fate in Canaan, in another, from immigrants from Crete or the Aegean, conflating Palestinians with "Philistines ...

  6. History of the State of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    An UNGA resolution was adopted "acknowledging the proclamation of the State of Palestine by the Palestine National Council on 15 November 1988," and it was further decided that "the designation 'Palestine' should be used in place of the designation 'Palestine Liberation Organization' in the United Nations system," and it delegate was assigned a ...

  7. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.

  8. History of the Palestinians - Wikipedia

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    Under the Ottomans, Palestine's Arab population mostly saw themselves as Ottoman subjects. Kimmerling and Migdal consider the revolt in 1834 of the Arabs in Palestine as the first formative event of the Palestinian people. In the 1830s, Palestine was occupied by the Egyptian vassal of the Ottomans, Muhammad Ali and his son Ibrahim Pasha. The ...

  9. On this day in History, Israel and Palestine signed first ...

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    The signing of the "Declaration of Principles" marked the first time an agreement was made between the two On this day in History, Israel and Palestine signed first agreement of peace, September ...