Palestine

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geographical region historic region

Palestine is a historic region in Western Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, significant as a crossroads of civilizations and a central homeland in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

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All labels observed (18)

Label Occurrences
Palestine canonical 229
Israel 15
Land of Israel 10

Statements (71)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region ⓘ
historic region ⓘ
associatedLanguage Arabic ⓘ
Aramaic ⓘ
Greek ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
associatedPeople Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Christians

Jews ⓘ
Muslims ⓘ
Palestinian ⓘ
surface form: Palestinians

Samaritans ⓘ
borderFeature Dead Sea ⓘ
Jordan River ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
describedAs Holy Land ⓘ
hasImportantLake Dead Sea ⓘ
Sea of Galilee ⓘ
hasImportantRiver Jordan River ⓘ
hasMajorCity Acre ⓘ
Bethlehem ⓘ
Gaza City ⓘ
Haifa ⓘ
Hebron ⓘ
Jaffa ⓘ
Jerusalem ⓘ
Nablus ⓘ
Nazareth ⓘ
Ramallah ⓘ
hasSacredCity Bethlehem ⓘ
Hebron ⓘ
Jerusalem ⓘ
Nazareth ⓘ
hasSubregion Coastal Plain ⓘ
Galilee ⓘ
Gaza Strip ⓘ
Jordan River ⓘ
surface form: Jordan Valley

Judea ⓘ
Negev desert ⓘ
surface form: Negev

Samaria ⓘ
West Bank ⓘ
historicalControlBy Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Egypt

British Empire ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Crusader states ⓘ
Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) ⓘ
surface form: Kingdom of Israel

Kingdom of Judah ⓘ
Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ
surface form: Neo-Assyrian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ
Ottoman Empire ⓘ
Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
locatedIn Western Eurasia ⓘ
surface form: Western Asia
locatedOn eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
mentionedIn Tanakh ⓘ
surface form: Hebrew Bible

New Testament ⓘ
Quran ⓘ
modernPoliticalDivisionIncludes Israel ⓘ
surface form: State of Israel

State of Palestine ⓘ
partOf Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Middle East ⓘ
religiousSignificance Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ
UNTerm Palestinian territories ⓘ
surface form: Occupied Palestinian Territory

Referenced by (273)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pelagius → associatedWith → Palestine ⓘ
Bethlehem → locatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
Mishnah → countryOfOrigin → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Jewish Agency for Palestine → operatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Karaite Jews → emergedInRegion → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Galut → associatedWith → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Rabbinic Judaism → geographicScope → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Saadia Gaon → residence → Palestine ⓘ
Eusebius of Caesarea → placeOfBirth → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Palestine (Roman Empire)
Modern Standard Arabic → officialStatusIn → Palestine ⓘ
Basel Program → territorialFocus → Palestine ⓘ
Balfour Declaration → locationMentioned → Palestine ⓘ
Labor Zionism → region → Palestine ⓘ
Hasmonean dynasty → locatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient Palestine
Practical Zionism → geographicFocus → Palestine ⓘ
Practical Zionism → geographicFocus → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Antiochian Orthodox Church → hasMajorPresenceIn → Palestine ⓘ
Diocletianic Persecution → moreSevereIn → Palestine ⓘ
St George's Day → countryWhereObserved → Palestine ⓘ
Jerome → deathPlace → Palestine ⓘ
Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution of Zohar) → associatedWithPlace → Palestine ⓘ
subject surface form: Shimon bar Yochai
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Saint George of Lydda → patronage → Palestine ⓘ
Nachmanides (Ramban) → deathPlace → Palestine ⓘ
subject surface form: Nachmanides
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Nachmanides (Ramban) → settledIn → Palestine ⓘ
subject surface form: Nachmanides
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Nachmanides (Ramban) → burialPlace → Palestine ⓘ
subject surface form: Nachmanides
this entity surface form: Land of Israel
Holy Land → overlapsWith → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Palestine (region)
French campaign in Syria → location → Palestine ⓘ
Mamluk rulers of Egypt → countryRuled → Palestine ⓘ
Northwest Semitic → spokenIn → Palestine ⓘ
Jewish National Fund → operatesIn → Palestine ⓘ
this entity surface form: Palestine (pre-1948)
Herbert Samuel → workLocation → Palestine ⓘ
Maronite Christianity → associatedCountry → Palestine ⓘ
Donations of Alexandria → awardedTerritory → Palestine ⓘ
Levantine cuisine → countryOfOrigin → Palestine ⓘ
Melkite Greek Catholic → majorPresenceCountry → Palestine ⓘ
Nablus → locatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
Palestinian Jews → mainTerritory → Palestine ⓘ
Shami Arabic → spokenIn → Palestine ⓘ
Asomtavruli → earliestInscriptionsLocation → Palestine ⓘ
Quaker City excursion of 1867 → visitedPlace → Palestine ⓘ
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy → locatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
Palmyrene Empire → territoryIncludes → Palestine ⓘ
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life → countryOfOrigin → Palestine ⓘ
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life → setIn → Palestine ⓘ
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine → location → Palestine ⓘ
Church of the Nativity → locatedIn → Palestine ⓘ
Greater Middle East → includesCountry → Palestine ⓘ
Awni Abd al-Hadi → residence → Palestine ⓘ
Middle East and North Africa → includesCountry → Palestine ⓘ
Yusuf al-Khalidi → regionOfActivity → Palestine ⓘ