Question

When did Palestine first become a designation for a place in the Middle East?

Answer 1

explain more your question please ?

Answer 2

About 450 BC.

Answer 3

Thanks, Meta. AmineFr, I am asking when was the first time Palestine, or an approximation of it, was used first in the Middle East.

Answer 4

It is a term derived from Philistine, the people who occupied the area around modern Gaza back in the Bronze Age. They were famous for their conflicts with the Israelites such as the dual between David (of Israel) and Goliath (the Philistine).

Answer 5

Right, but when is it Palestine. I see in some of studies that Rome and Ottomans used that distinction, usually with another group attached, such as Syrian Palestine, etc.. the Palestine Mandate of the British Empire, etc..

Answer 6

In the second century A.D., the Romans crushed the revolt of Shimon Bar Kokhba (132 CE), during which Jerusalem and Judea were regained. Three years later, in conformity with Roman custom, Jerusalem was “plowed up with a yoke of oxen” and renamed Aelia Capitolina. Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) was renamed Palaestina in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word “Filastin” is derived from this Latin name.