- Palestine (disambiguation)
The terms Palestine or Palestina and Palestinian carry a number of current and historical interpretations:
Principal meanings
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Palestine geographical region in the Middle East, on the southern east coast of the Mediterranean Sea* The
Palestinian National Authority (PNA), an interim administrative organization that governs parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip* "The
Palestinian territories ", a term often used to refer collectively to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and sometimes only to those areas governed by the PNA* The "
State of Palestine ", an attempt by the Palestine Liberation Organization to create a Palestinian state in 1988* The
Palestinian people (or simply Palestinians), Arabic-speaking people with family origins in PalestineHistorical place designations
Historical place designations include:
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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 theAchaemenid Empire Other places named Palestine
Brazil
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Palestina, Sao Paulo
*Palestina, Alagoas
*Palestina de Goias Colombia
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Palestina, Caldas
*Palestina, Huila Ecuador
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Palestina, Ecuador Guatemala
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Palestina de Los Altos Iraq
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Palestine Hotel , a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists
*Palestine Street , a street located in Eastern BaghdadUnited States
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Palestine, Arkansas
*Palestine, Illinois
*Palestine, Indiana , in Kosciusko County
*Palestine, Franklin County, Indiana
*New Palestine, Indiana
*Palestine, Ohio
*East Palestine, Ohio
*Palestine, Texas
*Palestine, West Virginia Media
* "Palestine" (Sacco comic), a comic by Joe Sacco
* Filistine was a bi-weekly newspaper of the Arab Orthodox publisherDaoud Isa , begun in 1911 in JaffaPeople
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Charlemagne Palestine , an American composer.Other
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Palestine (horse) , the racehorse who won the 2,000 Guineas in 1950
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