Palestine

The term Palestine carries a number of current and historical interpretations:

Principal meanings

• The State of Palestine declared by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1988 and currently recognized by 114 countries.
• Palestine, a geographical region in the Middle East, on the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
• The Palestinian territories, a term sometimes applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip collectively, or just to the parts of them controlled by the Palestinian National Authority.

Historical place designations

Historical place designations include:

• British Mandate of Palestine, a mandate to govern Palestine exercised by Britain from 1922 to 1948 and administrative region of the Ottoman Empire
• Jund Filastin, a seventh-century sub-province of the early Arab Caliphate
• Syria Palaestina, a renaming of the province of the Roman Empire, Iudaea
• Palaestina I and II, the diocese of the Byzantine Empire, from which the geographic term Palestine derives
• Palestina, a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire

Other places named Palestine

Brazil

• Palestina, Sao Paulo
• Palestina, Alagoas
• Palestina de Goias

Colombia

• Palestina, Caldas
• Palestina, Huila

Ecuador

• Palestina, Ecuador

England

• Palestine, Hampshire a village near Andover

Guatemala

• Palestina de Los Altos

Iraq

• Palestine Hotel, a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists
• Palestine Street, a street located in Eastern Baghdad

Netherlands

• [1]Palestina, a small hamlet within the community of Nijkerk

Poland

• Palestyna, Łódź Voivodeship
• Palestyna, Podlaskie Voivodeship

United States

• Palestine, Arkansas
• Palestine, Connecticut, a very small unincorporated community in Fairfield County
• Palestine, Illinois
• Palestine, Indiana, in Kosciusko County
• Palestine, Franklin County, Indiana
• New Palestine, Indiana
• Palestine, Ohio
• East Palestine, Ohio
• Palestine, Texas
• Palestine, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
• Palestine, Wirt County, West Virginia

Media

• Filastin was a bi-weekly newspaper of the Arab Orthodox publisher Daoud Isa, begun in 1911 in Jaffa
• Journal of Palestine Studies, an academic journal founded in 1971
• Palestine (Sacco comic), a comic by Joe Sacco
• Palestine–Israel Journal, a quarterly journal based in Jerusalem
• Palestine Times, the only English-language daily newspaper to be produced out of Palestine
• The Palestine Telegraph, the first electronic newspaper to be produced out of the Gaza Strip

People

• Charlemagne Palestine, an American composer.
• Palestinian people

Other

• Palestine (horse), the racehorse who won the 2,000 Guineas in 1950

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