Palestine
/ˈpæləstaɪn/- a territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea巴勒斯坦（中东地中海东海岸地区）。
In biblical times Palestine comprised the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The land was controlled at various times by the Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, and Roman empires before being conquered by the Arabs in ad 634. It was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1918. The name Palestine was used as the official political title for the land west of the Jordan mandated to Britain in 1920; in 1948 the state of Israel was established in what was traditionally Palestine, but the name continued to be used in the context of the struggle for territory and political rights of displaced Palestinian Arabs. In 1993 an agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization giving some autonomy to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and setting up the Palestine National Authority and a police force.
词源
from Greek Palaistinē (used in early Christian writing)， from Latin (Syria) Palaestina (the name of a Roman province)， from Philistia 'land of the Philistines'.