Palestine
Palestine (/ˈpæləsˌtaɪn/ or /ˈpæləsˌtiːn/) typically refers to:
- State of Palestine, a de jure sovereign state in the Middle East recognized by 138 UN members and with non-member observer state status in the United Nations or
- Palestine (region), a geographical and historical region in the Middle East
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and can also refer to:
- Palestinian National Authority, established by the Oslo Accords and governs Palestinians in the West Bank
- Palestinian territories, areas occupied or controlled by Israel, comprising the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip
- Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the liberation of Palestine through armed struggle
Historical usage
- Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948), a geopolitical entity under British administration
- Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem or Palestine (1872–1917), an Ottoman district that encompassed Jerusalem, Gaza, Jaffa, Hebron, Bethlehem and Beersheba
- Jund Filastin (638 – 10th century), one of the military districts of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Bilad al-Sham (Syria)
- Syria Palaestina or Roman Palestine, a Roman province (135–390 CE), a province of the Roman Empire following merger of renamed Iudaea with Roman Syria
- Palaestina Prima, a Byzantine province in the Levant from 390 to c. 636, comprising the Galilee and northern Jordan Valley
- Palaestina Secunda, a Byzantine province in the Levant from 390 to c. 636, comprising the shoreline and hills of the Southern Levant (Judea and Samaria)
- Palaestina Salutaris alias Palestina Tertia, a Byzantine province established in the 6th century, covering the Negev and Transjordan
Other places
Iraq
- Palestine Hotel, a hotel in Baghdad
- Palestine Street, a street located in eastern Baghdad
Saudi Arabia
- Palestine Street, Jeddah
United Kingdom
- Palestine, Hampshire, a village near Andover
- Palestine Place, headquarters of the Church of England's organization Church's Ministry Among Jewish People, in London
United States
- Palestine, Arkansas
- Palestine, a community of Newtown, Connecticut
- Palestine, Illinois
- New Palestine, Indiana
- Palestine, Indiana (disambiguation), several places
- East Palestine, Ohio
- Palestine, Ohio, a small town in western Ohio
- Palestine, Texas
- Lake Palestine, a reservoir in eastern Texas
- Palestine, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
- Palestine, Wirt County, West Virginia
Media
- Palestine (comics), a graphic novel by Joe Sacco
- Palestine (2011 book), a 2011 compilation of statements by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Israel and Palestine
- Palestine (film), a 1912 American silent documentary
- Palestine (poem), an 1803 poem by clergyman Reginald Heber
Other uses
- Palestine (horse), a racehorse who won the 2,000 Guineas in 1950
- Falastin (newspaper)
People with the surname
- Charlemagne Palestine, American composer
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See also
- All-Palestine Government, a Palestinian Arab state proclaimed by the Arab League in 1948 and seated in Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip
- Definitions of Palestinian
- Holy Land
- Israel (disambiguation)
- Palestina (disambiguation)
- Palestine Arab Party, a political party in Palestine (1935–1947)
- Palestine Communist Party, a political party in Palestine (1923–1947)
- Palestinian (disambiguation)
- Palestinians
- Palestyna (disambiguation)
- Philistines
- Timeline of the name "Palestine"
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