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	Syria - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nevertheless Syria became a centre for the revival of Arab culture and of the drive for Arab self-determination.
		Syria became deeply involved in 1975–76 in Lebanon's civil war, at first as a mediating influence and then on the side of the right-wing Christians against the Muslims and Palestinians.
		Syria leant increasingly towards the West, its policies in Lebanon in direct conflict with Iran's dream of an Islamic republic, and its crumbling economy was promised Arab aid if Damascus switched allegiance.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Syria (2666 words)

	Palestine (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palestine (Greek: Παλαιστίνη Palaistinē, Latin: Syria Palæstina, Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina or ארץ ישראל Eretz Yisrael, Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn or Falasṭīn) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east.
		In 135, the Roman emperor Hadrian changed the name of the Roman province of Syria Judea to Syria Palaestina, which is the Latin version of the Greek name, and it became an administrative political unit within the Roman Empire, following the fall of a Jewish revolt led by Bar Kokhba in 132-135.
		Between 1920 and 1922, Palestine was defined by the San Remo Conference as the area bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a short stretch of Red Sea coastline between the latter two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palestine_(region) (1687 words)

	Palestine
		Filastin was the name of one of the districts of Syria during the Muslim empire of the 7th to 11th centuries, and of a somewhat smaller district during the 14th century.
		According to the 1993 Oslo Accords, the final status of the West Bank and Gaza is subject to a final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, temporary agreements now being in place.
		UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) and Resolution 338 (1973) state that the status of the territories needs to be resolved by negotiations, and requires Israel to withdraw from these territories.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/palestine.html (2966 words)

	Palestine_(region) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palestine (Latin: Syria Palæstina; Hebrew: פלשתינה; Palestina, ארץ־ישראל Eretz Yisrael; Arabic: فلسطين; Filasṭīn) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east.
		The term "Syria Palaestina" is first recorded by the 5th century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, and later Ptolemy and Pliny, to refer to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean; it is generally accepted that the region they referred to extended further inland than the domain of the Philistines.
		In A.D., the Roman emperor Hadrian changed the name of the Roman province of Syria Judea to Syria Palaestina, which is the Latin version of the Greek name, and it became an administrative political unit within the Roman Empire.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Palestine_(region) (1192 words)

	PALESTINE (REGION) FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 135, the Roman emperor Hadrian changed the name of the Roman province of Syria Judea to ''Syria Palaestina'', which is the Latin version of the Greek name, and it became an administrative political unit within the Roman_Empire, following the fall of a Jewish revolt led by Bar_Kokhba in 132-135.
		Between 1922 and 1947, the term "Palestine" referred to the geographical region bordered by (Trans-)Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean Sea http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/pal-transjrdn-1922.gif http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/images/israel03.jpg.
		Under the 1947_UN_Partition_Plan, Palestine was to be divided into two states of approximately equal size, one for Jews and one for Arabs, as well as the city of Jerusalem, which was to be administered by the UN http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/images/israel04.jpg.
	www.19gmarketinggroup.com /Palestine_(region) (1659 words)

	03-02lov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Syria is defined broadly by Skupinska-Løvset as the territory extending from the Mediterranean coast to the Euphrates River, and from the Taurus mountains of Commagene to the Jordan River valley.
		The corpus is treated in five sub-regions: (1) northern Syria, (2) mid-Syria, (3) Palmyra, (4) southern Syria, and (5) Syria-Palaestina.
		The portraits from southern Syria are mostly made of basalt and originate from the villages of the Hauran.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/0302lov.htm (880 words)

	History of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jews were divided between the Hellenists who supported the adoption of Greek culture, and those who believed in keeping to the traditions of the past, which resulted in the Maccabean revolt of the 2nd century BCE.
		The Arab-Jewish fighting within Palestine escalated to full-scale war right after the UN partition plan was approved, and on May 14, 1948, the Jewish population declared independence as the state of Israel.
		The armies of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria then invaded, but did not succeed even in holding onto much of the areas reserved in the UN partition plan for the Arab state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syria_Palaestina (2906 words)

	Kennedy1
		In antiquity, this broad sweep of land between the rugged mountain terrain of eastern Anatolia and the barren desert of the Arabian Peninsula was often referred to loosely as 'Syria'.
		It was not till 45, however, that a Parthian force appeared in Syria and was able to raise the siege of a Caesarian army of a Pompeian army inside Apamaea.
		Nevertheless, the semi-desert and desert from the Euphrates to the Red Sea and the Negev are studded with Roman forts.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/ken.html (9584 words)

	History of Palestine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the beginning of the 15th century, Palestine was captured by the Ottoman Turks, who remained in control until (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I.
		Amongst the educated Arab public, Filastin was a common concept, referring either to the whole of Palestine or to the Jerusalem sanjaq alone (Porath).
		According to the result of negotiations with France, the northern boundary was set at the position of the present northern border of Israel (excluding the (A fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and southern Syria) Golan Heights) and the large part of the (A desert in southern Israel) Negev now in Israel was included.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_palestine.htm (3311 words)

	Wikipedia: Judea
		It included the lands of Syria, to south of it as far as Egypt and the ancient Kingdom of Judah.
		Following the suppression of Bar Kokhba's revolt, the emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem became Aelia Capitolina in order to humiliate the Jewish population by attempting to erase the nation's historical ties to the region.
		135 - Judea renamed Syria Palaestina by emperor Hadrian.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/j/ju/judea.html (719 words)

	Palestine biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In present-day usage, the term is frequently used in political advocacy, referring to land considered as rightfully belonging to the Palestinians, particularly the State of Palestine, recognized by 2/3 of the world's nations since its declaration of independence in the 1980s.
		According to the 1993 Oslo Accords, the final status of the West Bank and Gaza is subject to a final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians; temporary agreements are currently in place.
		The status of the Golan Heights is subject to negotiations with Syria.
	palestine.biography.ms (1748 words)

	Palestine: History
		The ethnarchy became the new province of Judaea, comprising the districts of Judaea, Idumaea, and Samaria, and subordinated to Syria.
		Syria Palaestina thus became a good deal less problematic for the imperial government than Judaea had been.
		Syria became two provinces, and conquest at Parthian expense led to the creation of the new province of Mesopotamia.
	www.usd.edu /erp/Palestine/history.htm (4659 words)

	Think-Israel
		The country that Jews have traditionally called the Land of Israel, and that Christians called the Holy Land -- was not ordinarily or traditionally seen as a separate or distinct land by Muslim Arabs or the Ottoman state.
		Palaestina Prima, essentially the southern part of the country (without most of the Negev), was named Jund Filastin (Filastin military district).
		Most of them became pan-Arabists, eagerly supporting Faisal, the Hashemite would be king of Syria, whose kingdom based at Damascus was overthrown by the French in July 1920.
	www.think-israel.org /green.jerusalem1900.html (2879 words)

	WHAT DID ROME CALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- & WHERE WERE ITS BORDERS?
		Syria was the more inclusive term of the two and indeed, as used by early Greeks and by later Greeks and Romans, it included the notion of Palestine, as we see from Herodotos, who wrote of "Palestinian Syria" (using the word as an adjective, not a noun).
		Syria was mainly a broad geographic term for the Greeks.
		Syria was distinct from Assyria, although for some classical writers, Syria included Assyria and Babylonia far to the east.
	www.esek.com /jerusalem/iudaea.html (4037 words)

	Palestine: Administration
		The legate of Syria or the prefect of Judaea appointed the High Priest until 41; thereafter and until 66 the Jewish client kings exercised this privilege.
		In 6 or 7 CE the governor of Syria, Quirinius, supervised the initial tax assessment of the newly constituted province of Judaea.
		And the Negev and southern Transjordan--once Arabia--and most of Sinai became Palaestina Tertia, with Petra the usual residence of the governor (this third region, also called Palaestina Salutaris, seems to have had a discreet identity already in the middle of the fourth century).
	www.usd.edu /erp/Palestine/administ.htm (1482 words)

	Palestine Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first attested use of the term as a geographical description for the region is in Herodotus, who spoke Greek.
		The term gained wider currency when Hadrian renamed the province of Judea ''Syria Palæstina'' after crushing Bar Kokhba's revolt in 135.
		EtymologyEtymologically, the term was based on the Aegean people known as Philistines that lived in the coastal areas in pre-Roman times.
	www.echostatic.com /Palestine.html (248 words)

	Caesarea Maritima
		Latin and Greek inscriptions indicate that during the Roman period the complex served as the palace (praetorium) of the financial procurator - the highest financial official of the province of Judaea / Syria Palaestina, and during the Byzantine period it served as the praetorium of the Byzantine governor of Palaestina Prima.
		"Urban Ruralization in Provincia Palaestina: The Demise of the Byzantine Praetorium at
		Palaestina and its Praetoria," Abstracts of the 1999 Roman Archaeology Conference,
	pluto.huji.ac.il /~patrichj/my_web_site/Caesarea.html (1274 words)

	israel
		It is claimed to be a parliamentary democracy with a predominantly Jewish population (and a large non-Jewish minority mostly comprised of Arabs who literally have no rights in practice).
		Israel is currently also embroiled in an ongoing conflict with Palestinians in the territories controlled since the Six Day War in 1967, despite the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, and the ongoing efforts of Israeli, Palestinian and global peacemakers.
		In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations are being conducted between Israeli and Palestinian representatives (from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip) and Israel and Syria, to achieve a permanent settlement.
	www.findthelinks.com /countries/israel.htm (2887 words)

	Palestine
		The name Palestine is derived from the Greek Philistia, a name given to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BC occupied a small area north of Gaza.
		The Romans used the term Syria Palaestina in the 2nd century BC for the southern third of the province of Syria.
		Palestine is a land of sharp contrasts; only 14 miles (23 km) separate an elevation of 2,694 feet (821 m) above sea level north of Jerusalem from the shores of the Dead Sea, which lies approximately 1,312 feet (400 m) below sea level and is the lowest point on the Earth's land surface.
	www.angelfire.com /ms/sharbati/G.html (1371 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palestine (Latin Syria Palæstina, Standard Hebrew פלשתינה; Palestina, also ארץ־ישראל Éreẓ-Yisraʾel, Arabic فلسطين; Filasṭīn), is a region in the Middle East extending inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Palestine is the area bordered by Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean Sea.
		Filastin (فلسطين), originally an Arabic transcription of the Greek term Palaistina, was the name of one of the districts of Syria in the Fatimid and Abbasid Caliphates of the 7th to 11th centuries, was briefly the heart of the Crusader States and then part of the Mamluk empire.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Palestine (2102 words)

	Legion XXIV - Legions of Imperial Rome
		Finally in circa 140, the Legion was permanently stationed in Syria at Bostra (Busra), northeast of Hierosolyma (Jerusalem).
		From 72 AD was probably at Samosata in northern Syria on the Euphrates River and for a time was the garrison of the new province of Arabia, after 105 AD; and subsequently was in Judea (Syria-Palaestina).
		The Legion was in Syria in 75 AD and later was at Satala in Cappadocia (eastern Turkey-Iraq).
	www.legionxxiv.org /legionshist (5210 words)

	Cotton, Hannah M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fasti of the Roman officials in Judaea/Syria Palaestina between 6 and 324 CE.
		Fasti of the Roman province Judaea/Syria Palaestina: (with Werner Eck)
		The catalogue as well as the introduction will illustrate the changes in status and borders undergone by the Roman province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina during this period, as well as the dates and causes of these changes.
	www.hum.huji.ac.il /dinur/profs/HU/Other/cottonh.htm (1161 words)

	IsraPundit
		When, some sixty years later, Emperor Hadrian decided to further desecrate the site of the destroyed Temple of the Jews by erecting a pagan structure there, it was the grandchildren's turn to take on their mighty conquerors.
		The Emperor was so enraged at the Jews' struggle for freedom in their own land that, in the words of the esteemed modern historian, Bernard Lewis, "Hadrian made a determined attempt to stamp out the embers not only of the revolt but also of Jewish nationhood and statehood...
		Wishing to end, once and for all, Jewish hopes, Hadrian renamed the land itself from Judaea to "Syria Palaestina" - Palestine - after the Jews' historic enemies, the Philistines, a non-Semitic sea people from the eastern Mediterranean or Aegean area...
	israpundit.blogspot.com /2003/04/arafats-jesus-gerald.html (1158 words)

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