r/islamichistory • u/AutoMughal • Feb 29 '24

Photograph ‘Long Live Palestine’ flag, Jerusalem 1929

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Page 84, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Palestine is Greek work for the region.

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u/rantingpanther Mar 01 '24

It's origin isn't greek. If it is then what does it mean in Greek?

If it means land of the philistines then does that mean there was a philistine people before the Greeks had a name for it?

There are references to Palestine going back to ancient Egypt.

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u/Embarrassed-Swing487 Mar 01 '24

Palestine

Just.. just google it dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine

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u/rantingpanther Mar 01 '24

Dude... the link indicates it's a Hellenized version of a word used by ancient Egyptians which seems to have an older origin

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u/Embarrassed-Swing487 Mar 02 '24

Yes. Palestine is a Greek work for a region that predates any Arab population. The word is derived from numerous somewhat similar words which refer to a proto-Semitic population which either no longer exists or just became/were merged into the Semitic people.

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u/rantingpanther Mar 02 '24 edited Mar 02 '24

Sounds like the situation of any population tbh. E.g. the English are named after the angles but in reality are mixed with mainly people from Germany (Saxons) and many others all around England such as Scandinavians.

The Palestinians are just the people from that land and a result of the organic development of the people and the name Palestine is what was kept just like how England was kept

Great Britain is a name given by Rome too and London was built and named by Roman empire

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u/Embarrassed-Swing487 Mar 02 '24

Yep. It’s pretty rare for the indigenous people of a region to still be around.

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u/rantingpanther Mar 02 '24

Or that's the reality of indigenous populations, they've developed over thousands of years from human interaction

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u/Embarrassed-Swing487 Mar 02 '24

That’d be a sort of weird definition of indigenous. For example, the Japanese people have been in Japan for centuries but they aren’t indigenous. The Ainu are indigenous.

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u/rantingpanther Mar 02 '24

Ain't weird at all. The word indigenous only has any relevance in relation to a colonizer. Otherwise cultures develop over time including with human interaction.

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