Palestine (disambiguation)

Palestine (disambiguation)

The terms Palestine or Palestina and Palestinian carry a number of current and historical interpretations:

Principal meanings

* 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 Palestine

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

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

United States

*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 publisher Daoud Isa, begun in 1911 in Jaffa

People

* Charlemagne Palestine, an American composer.

Other

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


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