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palestine

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Palestine ( , , ; , Palaistinē ; ; Hebrew : פלשתינה Palestina ) is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River . It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Latin Palestina (name of a Roman province), from Greek Palaistine (Herodotus), from Hebrew Pelesheth "Philistia, land of the Philistines." Revived as an official political territorial name 1920 with the British mandate.\n \nUnder Turkish rule, Palestine ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 170 Housing Units (2000): 73 Land area (2000): 0.147453 sq. miles (0.381901 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.147453 sq. miles (0.381901 sq. km) FIPS code: 59598 Located within: Ohio ...

Usage examples of palestine.

Office of the Commander, Amn AI-Khass Special Security Service Headquarters Palestine Street, Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, 29 November 1994 2305 Hours, Local Hussein Kamil was unhappy, almost despondent.

Dotensk on his cell phone, in his office at the Amn Al-Khass headquarters on Palestine Street.

It must have seemed so to the Babylonish conquerors who swept over Palestine in turn, on their way to greater conquests in Egypt.

Chapter 11 The drama at Bethabara was quickly noised far and wide throughout Palestine.

This is the site of Gezer, one of the most ancient of the Canaanitish cities in Palestine, and one of the first objects of interest sought by the eye of the tourist on his journey up from Jaffa to Jerusalem.

If indeed we were disposed to adopt the traditions of a too-credulous antiquity, we might relate the distant peregrinations, the wonderful achievements, and the various deaths of the twelve apostles: but a more accurate inquiry will induce us to doubt, whether any of those persons who had been witnesses to the miracles of Christ were permitted, beyond the limits of Palestine, to seal with their blood the truth of their testimony.

If the settlement there proves successful, he intends to attempt a demarche on Palestine or possibly the Gulf.

You are aware, no doubt, that I have proposed your withdrawal of two Australian divisions from Palestine to the new theatre of so much direct interest to Australia.

Palestine were so disturbed and disorganized that the Guardian could not send a message as you requested, to the Esperanto Congress in Munich in May.

But the friendship of Heraclius and Mahomet was of short continuance: the new religion had inflamed rather than assuaged the rapacious spirit of the Saracens, and the murder of an envoy afforded a decent pretence for invading, with three thousand soldiers, the territory of Palestine, that extends to the eastward of the Jordan.

Her vessels transported the Latin pilgrims to the coasts of Egypt and Palestine, and deserved, by their useful imports, the favor and alliance of the Fatimite caliphs: an annual fair was instituted on Mount Calvary: and the Italian merchants founded the convent and hospital of St.

Israel, and especially during their struggles for the conquest of Palestine, and at last gave place to the conception of Jahveh, a national God conceived after the fashion of the gods of polytheism, essentially anthropomorphic, the God of Israel in conflict with the gods of the surrounding nations.

His life-drama was interwoven into the lives of all classes of people: men, women and children, Judaists and heathen, King Herod and the proconsul Pilate, priests and soldiers, merchants and beggars, learned sophists and ignorant fools, the sick and the healthy, the righteous and the sinful, Jews and Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and all others who could be met in Palestine, the very market of races and creeds.

Now Paul and his traveling companion, a Gentile physician named Lucanus, easily forgot the terrors of their voyage from Palestine, which had ended in shipwreck on the coast of Malta, winter there, and transfer to the ship that had brought them to Puteoli.

The movement was discredited by the fact that all the anti-Semites, from the government to the Naras, favoured emigration to Palestine.