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Palestine
Region, at the E end of the Mediterranean Sea. It extends east to the Jordan River, north to the border between Israel and Lebanon, west to the Mediterranean, and south to the Negev desert, reaching the Gulf of Aqaba. The political status and geographical area designated by the term have changed considerably over the course of some three millennia. The E boundary has been particularly fluid, often understood as lying east of the Jordan and extending at times to the edge of the Arabian Desert. A land of sharp contrasts, it includes the Dead Sea and mountains peaks more than 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level. In the 20th cent. it has been the object of conflicting claims by Jewish and Arab national movements. The region is sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Settled since early prehistoric times, mainly by Semitic groups, it was occupied in biblical times by the kingdoms of Israel, Judah, and Judaea. It was subsequently held by virtually every power of the Middle East, incl. the Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, and Ottoman Turks. It was governed by Britain under a U.N. mandate from the end of World War I until 1948, when the state of Israel was proclaimed. Armies from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, and Iraq attacked the next day. They were defeated by the Israeli army. See Israel and Jordan for the later history of the region.
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