Palestine

Palestine ( , , 
) is a conventional name uised, amang others, tae describe a geographic region atween the Mediterranean Sea an the Jordan River, an sindry adjoinin lands.

 Oreegin o name 
The name "Palestine" is the cognate o an ancient wird meanin "Philistines" or "Land o the Philistines".Room, 1997, p. 285.Greek  from , see e.g. Josephus, Antiquities I.136; cf. First Book of Moses (Genesis) X.13. In keepin wi the Greek cultur o the day, it haes an aa been suggestit that it mey an aa be a play on the wird Παλαιστής Palaistes (Greek for wrestler) an a reference tae Jacob, later cawed Israel, the foonder o the ancient Israeli naition.

The earliest kent mention is thocht tae be in Ancient Egyptian texts o the temple at Medinet Habu which record a fowk cawed the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) amang the Sea Peoples who invadit Egypt in Ramesses III's reign. The Ebreu name Peleshet ( Pəléshseth)- uisually translatit as Philistia in Inglis, is uised in the Bible tae denote the soothren coastal region that wis inhabitit bi the Philistines tae the wast o the ancient Kinrick o Judah.Lewis, 1993, p. 153.

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