A possible predecessor term, Peleset, is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people, starting from c. 1150 BCE during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.
The Assyrians called the same region "Palashtu/Palastu" or "Pilistu," beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BCE through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later.
[7][8] The 10 uses in the Torah have undefined boundaries and no meaningful description, and the usage in two later books describing coastal cities in conflict with the Israelites – where the Septuagint instead uses the term "allophuloi" (Αλλόφυλοι, "other nations") – has been interpreted to mean "non-Israelites of the Promised Land".
[9][10] The term Palestine first appeared in the 5th century BCE when the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between Phoenicia and Egypt in The Histories.
[24] Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic,[3][25] and the Jund Filastin became one of the military districts within the Umayyad and Abbasid province of Bilad al-Sham.
[3][16][43] By the time the Septuagint (LXX) was translated, the term Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη), first popularized in written form by Herodotus, had already entered the Greek vocabulary.
[8][44] The Septuagint later uses the alternate term "allophiloi" (Αλλόφυλοι, "other nations") from the Books of Judges onward,[7][9] such that post-Judges invocation of "Philistines" in Septuagint-based translations have been interpreted to mean "non-Israelites of the Promised Land" when used in the context of Samson, Saul and David.
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Adriaan Reland
's 1712
Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata
(Palestine's Ancient Monuments Illustrated) contains an early description and timeline of the historical references to the name "Palestine."
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Map of Palestine published in 1467 version of Claudius Ptolemy's
Cosmographia
by
Nicolaus Germanus
Map of Palestine published in 1482 version of Claudius Ptolemy's
Cosmographia
by
Nicolaus Germanus
Map of Palestine published in Florence 1482 and included in the
Francesco Berlinghieri
expanded edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (Geography)
1570 map of Palestine by
Ortelius
, whose inclusion of biblical Palestine in his contemporary atlas has been described as "loaded with theological, eschatological, and, ultimately, para-colonial Restorationism"
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