PALESTINE (DISAMBIGUATION)

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'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' as the name of a geographical area or an ethnic nation, carries a number of current and historical interpretations:
Main articles: Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian


★ Palestine - also called the "Holy Land", is a historic geographical region in the Middle East, on the southern east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

★ The State of Palestine is a recent attempt by the Palestinian National Authority to create a Palestinian state.

★ The Palestinian people, many of whom are Palestinian refugees living both within the "Palestinian territories" (including Judea and Samaria), and the Gaza Strip), and as both citizens and refugees of other countries. (While Jordan officially considers its citizens from the Palestine region to be Jordanian and not Palestinian, the ethnic nationality remains a factor of self-determination. Arabs living in the parts of Israel not included in the PA-administered territories refer to themselves either as Israeli-Arabs or as Palestinians.)
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★ The term "Palestinian" once also referred to Jews living in Palestine. It has been deprecated since the establishment of Israel, and the term Israelis now applies.
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
=== United States===

★ Palestine, Arkansas

★ Palestine, Illinois

★ Palestine, Indiana

★ New Palestine, Indiana

★ Palestine, Ohio

★ East Palestine, Ohio

★ Palestine, Texas

★ Palestine, West Virginia
===Brazil===

★ Palestina, São Paulo

★ Palestina, Alagoas

★ Palestina de Goiás
===Colombia===

★ Palestina, Caldas

★ Palestina, Huila
===Ecuador===

★ Palestina
===Guatemala===

★ Palestina de Los Altos
===Italy===

★ Palestrina (called ''Praeneste'' in Roman times)
===Iraq===

★ Palestine Hotel, a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists

★ Palestine Street, a street located in Eastern Baghdad

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Media

★ ''Palestine'', 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.