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The terms Palestine or Palestina and Palestinian carry a number of current and historical interpretations:

Main article: Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian

Principal meanings

• Palestine geographical region in the Middle East, on the southern east coast of the Mediterranean Sea

• The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), an interim administrative organization that governs parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

• "The Palestinian territories", a term often used to refer collectively to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and sometimes only to those areas governed by the PNA

• The "State of Palestine", an attempt by the Palestine Liberation Organization to create a Palestinian state in 1988

• The Palestinian people (or simply Palestinians), Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine

Historical place designations

Historical place designations include:

• British Mandate of Palestine, a mandate to govern Palestine exercised by Britain from 1922 to 1948 and administrative region of the Ottoman Empire
• Jund Filastin, a seventh-century sub-province of the early Arab Caliphate
• Syria Palaestina, a renaming of the province of the Roman Empire, Iudaea
• Palaestina I and II, the diocese of the Byzantine Empire, from which the geographic term Palestine derives
• Palestina, a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire

Other places named Palestine

Brazil

• Palestina, Sao Paulo
• Palestina, Alagoas
• Palestina de Goias

Colombia

• Palestina, Caldas
• Palestina, Huila

Ecuador

• Palestina, Ecuador

Guatemala

• Palestina de Los Altos

Iraq

• Palestine Hotel, a prominent hotel in Baghdad popular with Western journalists
• Palestine Street, a street located in Eastern Baghdad

United States

• Palestine, Arkansas
• Palestine, Illinois
• Palestine, Indiana, in Kosciusko County
• Palestine, Franklin County, Indiana
• New Palestine, Indiana
• Palestine, Ohio
• East Palestine, Ohio
• Palestine, Texas
• Palestine, West Virginia

Media

• Palestine (Sacco comic), a comic by Joe Sacco
• Filistine was a bi-weekly newspaper of the Arab Orthodox publisher Daoud Isa, begun in 1911 in Jaffa

People

• Charlemagne Palestine, an American composer.

Other

• Palestine (horse), the racehorse who won the 2,000 Guineas in 1950

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