“Gaza City, Palestine
The last city to put up resistance on Alexander’s warpath to Egypt, the port city of Gaza was besieged by Alexander’s army for a period of five months in 332 BC, and his troops killed or took captive nearly all of its inhabitants.
Alexander then brought in local Bedouins to populate Gaza, and he then organized the city into a polis (or “city-state”), establishing the roots of Greek culture in the area. Soon afterward, Gaza earned a reputation as a flourishing center of Hellenic learning and philosophy.”
Then the Palestinians got a hold of it.
Historically, culturally, linguistically speaking there were no “Palestinians” prior to 1948. There were Arabs, Jews, Samaritans, etc. but people associated themselves by religion primarily and language secondarily