Before Rome renamed it "Palestina," the Greeks called it Palaistinē (Παλαιστίνη). It’s right there in Herodotus—writing in the 5th century BCE. Centuries before the Romans, the Greeks already recognized the region between Phoenicia and Egypt by a name that echoes through

Adam S Khan

@adamkhan · Twitter · 2025-05-27 07:54 UTC

@nxt888 @Ziftspotter Except it wasn’t called Palestine yet since the Romans were still to come. It was called something else.