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The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE ancient Greece, [v] [vi] when Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē" (Ancient Greek: Συρίη ἡ Παλαιστίνη καλεομένη) [12] in The Histories, which included the Judean mountains ...
The Madaba Map is the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Land. It depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert. The largest and most detailed element of the topographic depiction is Jerusalem, at the center of the map. The map is ...
The map is a combination of a modern map and a biblical map (showing the Twelve Tribes) [51] Pashalic of Acre: 1822: Burckhardt map: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt: Map accompanying Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, published in 1822, five years after his travels in the region. Syria and the Holy Land 1830: Hall map: Sidney Hall
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Part of a series on the History of Palestine Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian ...
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian city in Palestine Bethlehem Palestinian city Arabic transcription(s) • Arabic بيت لحم • Latin Beit Laḥm (official) Beit Lehem or Bayt Laḥm (unofficial) Hebrew transcription(s) • Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם Skyline of Bethlehem Church of the Nativity Graffiti on ...
Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1] The modern Highway 60 (Israel-Palestine) follows roughly the route of the Way of the Patriarchs.
Syria Palaestina (Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Syría hē Palaistínē [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]) was the renamed Roman province formerly known as Judaea, following the Roman suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, in what then became known as the Palestine region between the early 2nd and late 4th centuries AD.