0.-introduction--palestine-as-a-name-commonly-used-throughout-ancient-history

0.1-palestine-as-an-official-administrative-entity

0.2-from-palestine-focused-biblical-orientalism-to-the-new-histories-of-israel

0.3-political-autonomy-independence-and-statehood-in-palestine-over-the-last-three-millennia

0.4-from-the-geo-political-term-palestine-to-the-concept-of-palestine-cartography-place-names-and-social-memory

0.5-locating-palestine-the-methodological-and-intellectual-framework

1.-the-philistines-and-philistia-as-a-distinct-geo-political-entity

1.1-the-philistines-as-indigenous-people-epigraphic-and-archaeological-evidence-for-peleset-and-the-philistines

1.2-the-name--canaan-in-the-late-bronze-period

1.3-the-name-palestine-takes-over-from-the-late-bronze-age-onwards

1.4-the-names-piliste-and-philistia-in-assyrian-sources

1.5-iron-age-philistia-as-a-distinct-polity-the-country-of-the-peleset-from-gaza-to-tantur-1200712-bc

1.6-the-highly-developed-cities-of-philistia

1.7-the--way-of-the-philistines-palestine-as-a-transit-country-and-the-historic-road-of-via-maris

1.8-philisto-arabian-coins-currency-power-and-autonomy-in-philistia-6th4th-centuries-bc

2.-the-conception-of-palestine-in-classical-antiquity-and-during-the-hellenistic-empires

2.1-the-greek-name--in-classical-and-foundational-greco-hellenic-sources

2.2-the-conception-of-palaistin-by-the-founding-father-of-history

2.3-the-name-palestine-in-aristotles-meteorology

2.4-palaestina-on-the-world-map-of-ptolemy-the-use-of-the-term-palaestina-by-greek-geographers-and-historians-during-the-seleucid-and-ptolemaic-empires

3.-from-philistia-to-provincia-syria-palaestina

3.1-the-upgrading-of-palestine-by-hadrian-the-official-designation-of-the-province-of-syria-palaestina-135390-ad

3.2-further-developments-from-syria-palaestina-to-palaestina

3.3-the-1st-century-geography-of-palaestina-by-strabo-pliny-the-elder-and-pomponius-mela

3.4-the-official-designation-of-palaestina-by-classical-jewish-scholars

3.5-the-rise-of-caesarea-palaestina

4.-the--three-in-one-provincia-palaestina

4.1-caesarea-maritima-as-a-mediterranean-capital-of-culture-the-citys-metropolitan-elite

4.2-nicaea-and-historical-ecclesiastical-representations-of-palestine-the-archiepiscopal-see-of-caesarea

4.3-the-emergence-of-independent-palestinian-church-political-versus-religious-capitals-in-palestine

4.4-latin-palestine

4.5-religio-cultural-and-institutional-memories-of-provincia-palaestina-and-modern-palestine

4.6-material-evidence-and-powerful-symbols-of-byzantine-palaestina--the-1884-archaeological-discovery-of-the-madaba-mosaic-map

4.7-the--athens-of-asia-in-palaestina-gaza-as-a-mediterranean-centre-of-classical-literature-and-rhetoric

4.8-popular-religion-and-the-relaxed-setting-of-gaza-the-rose-festival-of-gaza

4.9-monastic-school-of-gaza-and-the-monasteries-of-palaestina-the-desert-fathers-and-mothers-and-their-worldwide-impact

5.-arab-christian-palestine

5.1-arabic-classical-poetry-and-byzantine-palestine-al-nabighah-adh-dhubyani

6.-the-arab-province-of-jund-filastin

6.1-palestinian-syriac-aramaic-palestinian-arabic-and-palestinian-toponyms

6.2-the-continuities-and-transformation-of-the-province-of-jund-filastin

6.3-the-extent-of-the-arab-province-of-jund-filastin-from-marj-ibn-amer-to-the-red-sea

6.4-the-secular-and-sacred-capitals-of-the-province-of-filastin-the-grandeur-of-ilya-bayt-al-maqdis-and-al-ramla-under-the-umayyads

6.5-jund-filastin-as-the-richest-province-of-al-sham-region

6.6-coins-minted-in-filastin----palestine-currency-monetary-autonomy-and-numismatic-evidence-from-arab-islamic-palestine

6.7-reconfiguration-of-palestine-under-the-fatimids-the-province-of-jund-filastin-and-the-military-governor-of-palestine-11-----th-century

7.-between-egypt-and-al-sham

7.1-palestine-on-arab-and-venetian-world-maps-12th15th-centuries-the-maps-of-muhammad-al-idrisi-1154-pietro-vesconte-marino-sanudo-and-fra-mauro-1450

7.2-ayyubid-palestine-and-the-re-establishment-of-islamic-jerusalem-in-post-crusade-palestine-the-decline-of-palestines-coastal-cities-and-rise-of-the-interior-urban-centres

7.3-the-leading-role-of-al-quds-under-the-mamluks-the-capital-of-mamluk-palestine-and-the-city-without-walls-12601517

7.4-the-sea-versus-the-mountain-safad-as-a-new-regional-capital-of-the-galilee

7.5-the-social-memory-of-palestine-during-the-mamluk-and-early-ottoman-periods-filastin-in-local-muslim-social-memory

7.6-the-mosaics-of-historic-palestine-continuities-and-transformation-the-palestinian-glasswork-industry-of-al-khalil-and-the-school-of-mosaics-of-al-quds

8.-palestinian-statehood-in-the-18th-century

8.1-revivalism-and-rediscovery-under-ottoman-rule-the-arab-islamic-jurisprudence-of-palestine-and-indigenous-memories-of-filastin-under-the-ottomans-15171860s

8.2-al-dawlah-al-qutriyyah-palestinian-statehood-and-the-regimes-of-dhaher-al-umar-and-ahmad-pasha-al-jazzar-in-the-18th-century

8.3-history-of-urban-elites-versus-history-from-below-new-leadership-palestines-cotton-trade-with-europe-and-the-industrial-revolution

8.4-houranis-urban-elites-paradigm

8.5-taxation-frontier-provinces-and-the-rise-of-autonomous-power-in-18th-century-palestine

8.6-nominal-sovereignty-versus-practical-sovereignty

8.7-reading-the-history-of-modern-palestine-through-the-eyes-of-the-indigenous-people

9.-being-palestine-becoming-palestine

9.1-new-representations-of-palestine-18051917

9.2-western-travelogues-of-palestine-the-distinction-between-palestine-holy-land-and-syria

9.3-palestine-focused-russian-orientalism-in-the-late-ottoman-period

9.4-strategic-ambitions-and-the-british-peaceful-crusade-science-empire-and-the-mapping-of-palestine-by-the-palestine-exploration-fund-18651877

9.5-the-historic-and-geographic-maps-of-palestine-the-national-geographic

9.6-paradigm-shift-in-late-ottoman-palestine-18721917-historical-continuities-and-administrative-division-of-palestine

9.7-the-reimagining-of-palestinian-territorial-identity-and-proto-nationalism-in-late-ottoman-palestine-khalil-beidas-and-palestinian-cultural-nationalism

9.8-being-palestine-becoming-palestine-in-mahmoud-darwishs-poetry

9.9-vernacularisation-indigeneity-and-modern-representations-of-palestine-in-the-palestinian-arab-press-the-newspaper-falastin-19111967

9.10-the-term-filastin-in-ruhi-al-khalidis-unpublished-manuscript

9.11-historic-continuities-and-colonial-transformation-palestine-as-a-single-official-administrative-and-territorial-entity-under-the-british-1918may-1948

9.12-self-determination-and-the-proliferation-of-palestinian-nationalist-organisations-the-palestinian-national-movement-during-the-mandatory-period

9.13-the-short-lived-newspaper-suriyya-al-janubiyyah-19191920

9.14-from-palestine-to-the-land-of-israel-the-palestine-communist-party-palestinishe-komunistishe-partei

9.15-palestinian-national-institutions-and-organisations-in-the-post-nakba-period-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-plo

9.16-studia-palaestina-palestine-studies-and-the-proliferation-of-modern-research-societies-and-institutions

10.-settlercolonialism-and-disinheriting-the-palestinians

10.1-hebrewisation-antecedents-to-zionist-toponymy

10.2-from-karm-al-khalili-to-kerem-avraham-1855-james-finns-colony

10.3-disappearing-palestinian-villages-and-place-names-before-1948

10.4-appropriation-of-arabic-place-names-indigenisation-of-the-european-settlers-and-hybridisation-strategies

10.5-appropriation-hybridisation-and-indigenisation-the-appropriation-of-palestine-place-names-by-european-zionist-settlers

10.6-the-pure-zionist-settler-colony-and-a-monolingual-mindset-from-palestinian-arab-masha-and-sajara-to-israeli-kfar-tavor-and-ilaniya

10.7-judaisation-hebraicisation-and-biblicisation-strategies

10.8-zionist-toponymic-methods-and-strategies-in-the-post-nakba-period-key-features-of-the-israeli-place-names-projects

10.9-the-israeli-armys-hebrew-names-committee-of-1949-indigenising-the-european-settlers-and-self-renaming

10.10-hybridity-hebraicising-and-the-myth-of-restoration-eliezer-ben-yehuda-the-committee-of-the-hebrew-language-and-founding-myths-of-modern-hebrew

10.11-hybridisation-and-patterns-of-early-zionist-borrowing-from-and-modelling-on-arabic-and-aramaic

10.12-self-invention-self-indigenisation-and-self-antiquation-personal-name-changing-by-members-of-the-predatory-zionist-ashkenazi-elite-of-israel

10.13-toponyms-from-above-and-state-supervised-projects-the-israeli-governmental-names-committee

10.14-the-legendary-toponymy-of-zionist-settlers-and-the-latin-medieval-crusaders

10.15-the-creation-of-a-usable-past-the-power-knowledge-nexus

10.16-israeli-biblical-archaeology-as-a-secular-religion-judaisation-strategies-and-the-assertion-of-ownership-the-superimposition-of-biblical-talmudic-and-mishnaic-names

10.17-from-palestinian-majdal-asqalan-to-biblical-ashkelon

10.17-the-new-israeli-place-names-and-landscape-fashioning-a-european-landscape-as-a-site-of-amnesia-and-erasure

10.18-from-yerushalayim-to-orshalim-the-transliteration-of-new-hebrew-toponyms-and-road-signs-into-english-and-arabic

10.19-epilogue-the-palestinian-multi-layered-identity-toponymic-memory-and-the-diverse-heritage-of-the-land

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Palestine A Four Thousand Year History

We have on this earth what makes life worth living the aroma of bread at dawn a woman’s opinion of men the works of Aeschylus the beginnings of love grass on a stone mothers who live on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories ... we have on this earth what makes life worth living on this earth, the lady of earth the mother of all beginnings the mother of all endings she was called Palestine she came to be called Palestine o lady, beause you are my lady I am worthy of life (Mahmoud Darwish, On This Earth1)

Palestine A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha

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