palestine

     

Palestine (from Greek: Παλαιστίνη. Compare Latin: Palaestina; Hebrew: פלשתינה‎ Palestina; Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is a wiely-attested Western and Near Eastern conventional name which is used, among others, to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and various adjoining lands.

Trivia about palestine

  • Among suffixes, .mx is Mexico, .jp is Japan, & in March 2000 .ps was assigned to this
  • Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948
  • If you were a Philistine in biblical times, it means you hailed from what's now called this place
  • In 1948 the Council passed 29 resolutions, 16 on the mideast region it referred to as this
  • Galilee, Samaria & Judea in the south were the 3 traditional divisions of this ancient area with a still-current name