Palestine (disambiguation)

The term Palestine carries a number of current and historical interpretations:

Main article: Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian

Principal meanings

• Palestine, a geographical region in the Middle East, on the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
• The Palestinian territories a term applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip collectively, or just to the parts of them controlled by the Palestinian National Authority
• The State of Palestine - a quasi-state declared by the PLO in 1988

Historical place designations

Historical place designations include:

• British Mandate of Palestine, a mandate to govern Palestine exercised by Britain from 1922 to 1948
• Jund Filastin, a seventh-century sub-province of the early Arab Caliphate
• Syria Palaestina, a renaming of the province of the Roman Empire, Iudaea
• Palaestina I and II, the diocese of the Byzantine Empire, from which the geographic term Palestine derives
• Palestina, a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire

Other places named Palestine

Brazil

• Palestina, Sao Paulo
• Palestina, Alagoas
• Palestina de Goias

Colombia

• Palestina, Caldas
• Palestina, Huila

Ecuador

• Palestina, Ecuador

England

• Palestine, Hampshire a village near Andover

Guatemala

• Palestina de Los Altos

Iraq

• Palestine Hotel, a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists
• Palestine Street, a street located in Eastern Baghdad

Netherlands

• Nijkerk, Palestina, a small hamlet within the community of Nijkerk

Poland

• Palestyna, Łódź Voivodeship
• Palestyna, Podlaskie Voivodeship

United States

• Palestine, Arkansas
• Palestine, Connecticut, a very small unincorporated community in Fairfield County
• Palestine, Illinois
• Palestine, Indiana, in Kosciusko County
• Palestine, Franklin County, Indiana
• New Palestine, Indiana
• Palestine, Ohio
• East Palestine, Ohio
• Palestine, Texas
• Palestine, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
• Palestine, Wirt County, West Virginia

Media

• Filastin (newspaper), a bi-weekly newspaper of the Arab Orthodox publisher Daoud Isa, begun in 1911 in Jaffa
• Journal of Palestine Studies, an academic journal founded in 1971
• Palestine (Sacco comic), a comic by Joe Sacco
• Palestine–Israel Journal, a quarterly journal based in Jerusalem
• Palestine Times, the only English-language daily newspaper to be produced out of Palestine
• The Palestine Telegraph, the first electronic newspaper to be produced out of the Gaza Strip

People

• Charlemagne Palestine, an American composer
• Palestinian people

Other

• Palestine (horse), the racehorse who won the 2,000 Guineas in 1950