To: richardtavor
the British coined the phrase ‘Palestine’ from the Latin Palestina, which referred to the region of Ramalla, or actually, Samaria...
Your history is also a little off, the The Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Judea Palestina (a corruption of Philistia), as well as Jerusalem, which he dubbed Colonia Aelia Capitolina, in his attempt to turn the country and its capital into a Gentile territory.
105 posted on
04/23/2007 11:35:44 AM PDT by
attiladhun2
(Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
To: attiladhun2
I stand corrected..It held the name Aelia Capitolina I beleive until the time of Constantine.
110 posted on
04/23/2007 12:35:18 PM PDT by
richardtavor
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