#THISisWhoOwnsPalestine

Year	Ownership
~1150 BC	Philistines conquered the land of Canaan.
~1250 BC	Israel conquered the land of Canaan.
~957 BC	King Solomon constructs the temple in Jerusalem.
~928 BC	Division of country into Israel and Judah.
~722 BC	Assyrians conquered Israel.
~630 BC	Babylon revolted against Assyria.
~550 BC	Persia revolted against Assyria.
~586 BC	Babylonians conquered Judah.
~539 BC	Persia conquers/absorbs Babylonia.
~333 BC	Alexander the Great conquers Persian Babylon.
312 BC	Persian Babylon becomes part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
165 BC	Maccabean Revolt creates the independent state of Judea.
63 BC	Siege of Jerusalem turns Judea over to Roman rule.
330 AD	Byzantine Empire controls Syria Palestine.
613 AD	Persia capture Palestine.
705 AD	Construction of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
750 AD	Abbasid Caliphate rules Palestine.
969 AD	Fatimid Caliphate rules Palestine.
1071 AD	Seljuq Empire rules Palestine.
1099 AD	Crusades capture Jerusalem.
1187 AD	Saladin retakes Jerusalem for Ayyubid Dynasty.
1260 AD	Mamluk Sultanate overthrows Ayyubid.
1516 AD	Ottoman Empire conquers Palestine.
1914 AD	World War I begins.
1918 AD	Palestine occupied by British forces.
1923 AD	British Mandate formed.
1948 AD	The independent State of Israel is established.

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source:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story564.html
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2010/07/12/The-Philistines-Enter-Canaan-Were-They-Egyptian-Lackeys-or-Invading-Conquerors.aspx#Article
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Kingdoms1.html
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=593
http://www.factsofisrael.com/en/history.shtml

#THISisReallyPalestine

Year	Description
~1150 BC	The Peleset were the "sea people" who invaded Egypt during the reign of Ramesses III.
~900 BC	Peleset was a region of Canaan.
~800 BC	Palaastu was overthrown by the Assyrians.
~675 BC	The Assyrian Empire had a district of Piliste.
450 BC	Phoenicians and Syrians lived in the satrap of Palestine, a district of Syria.
340 BC	Aristotle references the Dead Sea in the region of Palestine.
150 BC	Greeks reference a part of Syria called Palestine.
43 AD	Pliny the Elder refers to a region of Syria "formerly called Palestina".
94 AD	Josephus refers to the Jews of Palestine.
135 AD	Hadrian used the name Syria Palestine to include a region called Iudaea Province.
390 AD	Roman Diocese of the East included three administrative units of Palestina Prima, Secunda, and Tertia. Palestina Prima included Judea and Samaria.
900 AD	Limits of the Five Patriarchies lists Palestine as part of the patriarchate.
1220 AD	The "History of Jerusalem" references three Palestines as part of Greater Syria, with the first part named Judaea.
1421 AD	The Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society lists three Palestines, including Judaea and Samaria.
1747 AD	"Palestine, a part of Asiatic Turkey, is situated between 36 and 38 degrees of E longitude and between 31 and 34 degress of N latitude, bounded by the Mount Libanus, which divides it from Syria, on the North, by Mount Hermon, which separates it from Arabia Deserta, on the East, by the mountains of Seir, and the deserts of Arabia Petraea, on the South, and by the Mediterranean Sea on the West."
1880 AD	The Ottoman Empire issued decrees intended to limit Zionist immigration, including Palestine.
1915 AD	The "Filistin Risalesi" included as survey by the Ottoman Empire which identified three sanjaqs of Palestines, including the sanjaq of Jerusalem.
1920 AD	The British Mandate, following World War I, created Palestine Eretz Israel.
1948 AD	The State of Israel was established.

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source:
Timeline of the name "Palestine" - Wikipedia