The region of Palestine, also known as historic Palestine or land of Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia. It generally encompasses the area inhabited by the modern states of Israel and Pale
Caesarea Maritima, also known as Caesarea Palestinae, built under Herod the Great at the site of a former Phoenician naval station, became the capital city of Roman Judea, Roman Syria Palaestina and Byzantine Palaestina Prima provinces.
Michael Avi-Yonah's depiction of the Second Temple in the Holyland Model of Jerusalem. The Second Temple was built under Herod and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE during the First Jewish-Roman War.
The Dome of the Rock, the world's first great work of Islamic architecture, constructed in 691.
Minaret of the White Mosque in Ramla, constructed in 1318
Palestinians are an Arab national group native to the region of Palestine, descended from those who have inhabited the area over the millennia. They represent a highly homogenized community who share
Palestine (region)
…the Arab Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans, the British, and modern Israelis and Palestinians. The region was among the earliest in the world to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization. In the late 4th millennium BCE…
Embroidered panel on a 1920s dress from Bayt Dajan, Jaffa area
Khalil Beidas (1874–1949) whose writings played an important role in the development of Palestinian nationalist consciousness
Palestinian mother and child
Dendrogram based on mtDNA haplogroup frequencies from Badro et al. 2013.