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Ancient Semitic maritime civilization
Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
The label “Palestine” was not invented out of thin air by Rome, but the Roman rebranding of Judaea as Syria Palaestina in the 2nd century CE was a pivotal moment that transformed an older geographic t...
Herodotus does use a Greek word that scholars and later writers identify with “Palestine” (Palaistinê) and applies it to a district between Phoenicia and Egypt; his passages mention “Syrians of Palest...
Herodotus (5th century BCE) uses a Greek word Palaistinê and describes a district "between Phoenicia and Egypt," which later writers and modern summaries treat as an early use of the name "Palestine" ...
Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...
Classical Greek sources use the toponym Παλαιστῑ́νη (Palaistínē) and adjectival forms derived from it (e.g., Palaistinós) to designate a coastal and inland district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egyp...
Herodotus did write about the Levant/Syria‑Palestine region in The Histories, naming territories and peoples within Greater Syria and describing events and geography that include what later authors ca...
uses the Greek term (Παλαιστίνη) to designate a district of —the coastal and adjacent parts of the between and —applying it more broadly than the biblical coastal Philistia . He distinguishes subgroup...
Ancient Greek historians learned about Palestine from a mix of direct observation, earlier Greek writings, Mediterranean trade contacts and a small number of surviving geographic and ethnographic acco...
The Hebrew Bible links genealogy and Israelite identity by presenting descent from key ancestors (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/“Israel”) as the basis for the nation's name and tribal structure, especially th...