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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)
in which a 'Palastinian state' is mentioned several times:
Palestine[i] is a geographical region in West Asia. Situated in the
Southern Levant, it is usually considered to include Israel and the State
of Palestine, though some definitions also include parts of northwestern
Jordan. Other historical names for the region include Canaan, the Promised
Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land.
The first written records referring to Palestine emerged in the
12th-century BCE Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, which used the term Peleset
for a neighboring people or land. In the 8th century BCE, the Assyrians
referred to a region as Palashtu or Pilistu. In the Hellenistic period,
these names were carried over into Greek, appearing in the Histories of
Herodotus as Palaistine. The Roman Empire conquered the region and in 6 CE
established the province known as Judaea, then in 132 CE in the period of
the Bar Kokhba revolt the province was expanded and renamed Syria
Palaestina.[1] In 390, during the Byzantine period, the region was split
into the provinces of Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda, and Palaestina
Tertia. Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, the
military district of Jund Filastin was established. While Palestine's
boundaries have changed throughout history, it has generally comprised the
southern portion of regions such as Syria or the Levant. It also
conceptually overlaps with several terms of Judeo-Christian tradition,
including Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, and the Holy Land.
As the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, the region has a tumultuous
history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. In
the Bronze Age, it was inhabited by the Canaanites; the Iron Age saw the
emergence of Israel and Judah, two related kingdoms inhabited by the
Israelites. It has since come under the sway of various empires, including
the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the Achaemenid
Empire. Revolts by the region's Jews against Hellenistic rule brought a
brief period of regional independence under the Hasmonean dynasty, which
ended with its gradual incorporation into the Roman Empire (later the
Byzantine Empire).
In the 7th century, Palestine was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate,
ending Byzantine rule in the region; Rashidun rule was succeeded by the
Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Fatimid Caliphate.
Following the collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had been
established through the Crusades, the population of Palestine became
predominantly Muslim. In the 13th century, it became part of the Mamluk
Sultanate, and after 1516, part of the Ottoman Empire. During World War I,
it was captured by the United Kingdom as part of the Sinai and Palestine
campaign. Between 1919 and 1922, the League of Nations created the Mandate
for Palestine, which directed the region to be under British
administration as Mandatory Palestine. Tensions between Jews and Arabs
escalated into the 1947–1949 Palestine war, which ended with the remaining
territory of the former British Mandate post the creation of Transjordan
in 1946 divided between Israel vis-à-vis Jordan (in the West Bank) and
Egypt (in the Gaza Strip); later developments in the Arab–Israeli conflict
culminated in Israel's occupation of both territories, which has been
among the core issues of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[2][3][4]
(lots more details, and then...)
The British began their Sinai and Palestine Campaign in 1915.[103] The war
reached southern Palestine in 1917, progressing to Gaza and around
Jerusalem by the end of the year.[103] The British secured Jerusalem in
December 1917.[104] They moved into the Jordan valley in 1918 and a
campaign by the Entente into northern Palestine led to victory at Megiddo
in September.[104]
The British were formally awarded the mandate to govern the region in
1922.[105] The Arab Palestinians rioted in 1920, 1921, 1929, and revolted
in 1936.[106] In 1947, following World War II and The Holocaust, the
British Government announced its desire to terminate the Mandate, and the
United Nations General Assembly adopted in November 1947 a Resolution
181(II) recommending partition into an Arab state, a Jewish state and the
Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem.[107] A civil war
began immediately after the Resolution's adoption. The State of Israel was
declared in May 1948.[108]
Further information: History of Israel and History of the State of
Palestine
In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel captured and incorporated a further
26% of the Mandate territory, Jordan captured the regions of Judea and
Samaria,[109][xix][110] renaming it the "West Bank", while the Gaza Strip
was captured by Egypt.[111][112] Following the 1948 Palestinian expulsion
and flight, also known as al-Nakba, the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or
were driven from their homes were not allowed to return following the
Lausanne Conference of 1949.[113]
In the course of the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel captured the rest of
Mandate Palestine from Jordan and Egypt, and began a policy of
establishing Jewish settlements in those territories. From 1987 to 1993,
the First Palestinian Intifada against Israel took place, which included
the Declaration of the State of Palestine in 1988 and ended with the 1993
Oslo Peace Accords and the creation of the Palestinian National Authority.
In 2000, the Second Intifada (also called al-Aqsa Intifada) began, and
Israel built a separation barrier. In the 2005 Israeli disengagement from
Gaza, Israel withdrew all settlers and military presence from the Gaza
Strip, but maintained military control of numerous aspects of the
territory including its borders, air space and coast. Israel's ongoing
military occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem
continues to be the world's longest military occupation in modern
times.[xx][xxi]
In 2008 Palestinian hikaye was inscribed to UNESCO's list of intangible
cultural heritage; the first of four listings reflecting the significance
of Palestinian culture globally.[124][125]
In November 2012, the status of Palestinian delegation in the United
Nations was upgraded to non-member observer state as the State of
Palestine.[126][xxii]
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so there is indeed a state of palistine...