[SJackson]

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If BBC says so it must be, history shouldn't be allowed to interfere. The article notes the term appeared a century later, around 130-135ad when the Roman Provence Syria Palestina, however there are references to a term similar to Palestina as early as 800bc referring to the area between Syria and Egypt.

[Eleutheria5]

They talkum limey dialect. Mustum speakum true.

[HKMk23]

Yes. You may have read of the Philistine people; a long-time adversary of Israel, and a general thorn-in-the-flesh of the entire region. Though not provably blood descendants, today’s “Palestinians” are called — in their own tongue — Filistini.

[teeman8r]

do they mean the philistines?