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May 10, 2024 · Palestine. Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge, 1951–70. Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Reader in Hellenistic History, University of Oxford, 1964–85. Associate Professor in History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Coauthor of A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and others.
The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha'ab il-filastini) are an ethnonational group with family origins in the region of Palestine.Since 1964, they have been referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيين, al-filastiniyyin), but before that they were usually referred to as Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il ...
The study of the origins of the Palestinians, a population encompassing the Arab inhabitants of the former Mandatory Palestine and their descendants, is a subject approached through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing from fields such as population genetics, demographic history, folklore, including oral traditions, linguistics, and other disciplines.
History of Palestine Britannica is a comprehensive article that traces the ancient and modern history of Palestine, a region that has been the site of many civilizations, conflicts and cultural exchanges. The article covers the Paleolithic period, the Bronze and Iron ages, the Roman and Byzantine eras, the Islamic conquests, the Crusades, the Ottoman rule, the British mandate, the Arab-Israeli ...
Oct 25, 2018 · The term `Palestine' was originally a designation of an area of land in southern Canaan which the people known as the Philistines occupied a very small part of. The Canaanites, Canaanite- Phoenicians, and the Israelites, among others, established themselves in the area much earlier. The Philistines are thought to have come to the area toward ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Another people in Palestine was the Edomites. Originally, their kingdom occupied the southern area of modern-day Jordan but later they were pushed westward by nomadic tribes coming from the east, among them the Nabataeans, and therefore migrated into southern parts of Judea. This migration had already begun a generation or two before the ...
Feb 1, 2024 · Feb. 1, 2024. One year matters more than any other for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1948, Jews realized their wildly improbable dream of a state, and Palestinians experienced ...
