Timeline of the name Palestine

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This article presents a list of notable historical references to the name Palestine as a place name for the region of Palestine throughout history. This includes uses of the localized inflections in various languages, such as Latin Palaestina and Arabic Filasṭīn. The term Peleset is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people, starting from c. 1150 BCE during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. The word is transliterated from hieroglyphs as P-r-s-t-w, as Egyptians did not use the consonant "l" in writing, substituting it with "r" instead, and it is generally accepted that this is an ethnonym referring to the Philistines. The Assyrians used the terms "Palashtu/Palastu" or "Pilistu," beginning in c. 800 BCE through to refer to the region inhabited by the Philistines. Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term. The terms used in these inscriptions are considered cognates of the Biblical term Pəlīštīm used in the Hebrew Bible....

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