Palestine (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Principal meanings 2 Historical place designations 3 Other places named Palestine 3.1 Brazil 3.2 Colombia 3.3 Ecuador 3.4 Guatemala 3.5 Iraq 3.6 United States 4 Media 5 People 6 Other

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

Main article: Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian

[edit] Principal meanings

• Palestine, a historic 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Other places named Palestine

[edit] Brazil

• Palestina, Sao Paulo
• Palestina, Alagoas
• Palestina de Goias

[edit] Colombia

• Palestina, Caldas
• Palestina, Huila

[edit] Ecuador

• Palestina, Ecuador

[edit] Guatemala

• Palestina de Los Altos

[edit] Iraq

• Palestine Hotel, a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists
• Palestine Street, a street located in Eastern Baghdad

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] People

• Charlemagne Palestine, an American composer.

[edit] Other

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