Philistia in red, and neighbouring polities, circa 830 BC, after the Hebrew conquest of Jaffa, and before its recapture by the Philistines circa 730 BC.
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Philistine Canaanite Aramaic (from the 6th c. BC)
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• Late Bronze Age collapse
1175 BC
• Babylonian conquest of the Levant
604 BC
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Philistia (Hebrew: פְּלֶשֶׁת, romanized: Pəlešeṯ; Koine Greek (LXX): Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: gê tôn Phulistieím) was a confederation of five main cities or pentapolis in the Southwest Levant, made up of principally Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, and for a time, Jaffa.[1][2]
Scholars believe the Philistines were made up of people of an Aegean background that from roughly 1200 BC onwards settled in the area and mixed with the local Canaanite population,[3][4] and came to be known as Peleset, or Philistines. At its maximum territorial expansion, its territory may have stretched along the Canaanite coast from Arish in the Sinai (today's Egypt) to the Yarkon River (today's Tel Aviv), and as far inland as Ekron and Gath. Nebuchadnezzar II invaded Philistia in 604 BC, burned Ashkelon, and incorporated the territory in the Neo-Babylonian Empire; Philistia and its native population the Philistines disappear from the historic record after that year.
^Anson F. Rainey (February 2001). "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (321). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research: 58–59. doi:10.2307/1357657. JSTOR 1357657. S2CID 163534665.
^"The Philistine Age - Archaeology Magazine". www.archaeology.org. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
^Sullivan, Benjamin M. (2018). "In the Shadow of Phoenicia". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 138: 67–79, (70). doi:10.1017/S0075426918000058. JSTOR 26575919. S2CID 165940849.
^John Noble Wilford (29 September 1992). "Philistines Were Cultured After All, Say Archeologists". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 May 2021. I am willing to state flatly that the Sea Peoples, including the Philistines, were Mycenaean Greeks
the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. The Philistines originated as an immigrant group from the Aegean that...
Avvim (Hebrew: עַוִּים, Modern: ʿAvvīm, Tiberian: ʿAwwīm) or Avvites of Philistia in the Old Testament were a people dwelling in Hazerim, or "the villages"...
plant and tossed away'. "Thrust": "pierced" Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent's roots...
from Arabic. Persian: فلسطین (Felestin) Latin: Palæstina - same word as Philistia Turkish: Filistin An early version of the name Palestine was first recorded...
was ordered to assault several targets. In his book In the Fields of Philistia, Uri Avnery, who participated in the battles, wrote of the harassment...
8th century BC. During Hanunu's reign, much of the Levant, including Philistia, was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. According to the Hebrew Bible...
Judges, Samson lived during a time of repeated conflict between Israel and Philistia, when God was disciplining the Israelites by giving them "into the hand...
hunting, so that her cult became restricted to the coastal areas such as in Philistia, where it enjoyed high prestige until the Graeco-Roman period. One ceramic...
the Aegean, and continuing all the way to Canaan, founding the state of Philistia – taking Cilicia and Cyprus away from the Hittites en route and cutting...
the Iron Age, Ekron was a border city on the frontier contested between Philistia and the kingdom of Judah. Records of the Neo-Assyrian Empire also refer...
coalition of hostile neighboring states, Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Philistia. Its walls were torn down, its buildings razed, the Temple itself burned...
chapter contains the oracles against four nations: Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia. The prophecies of God's vengeance against these and other foreign nations...
family sanctuary. Achish agrees, and upon hearing that David has fled to Philistia, Saul ceases to pursue him, though no such pursuit seemed to be in progress...
land of Edom, the fields of Ephraim, the land of Gilead, the lowland of Philistia, and the fields of Samaria. The date of composition is disputed and is...
in Canaan may have contributed to the formation of new states, such as Philistia, in this region after the collapse of the Egyptian Empire (In the reign...
place of this well: Beersheba. After Abimelech and Phicol headed back to Philistia, Abraham planted a tamarisk grove in Beersheba and called upon "the name...
Iran Penuel Perga – Town In Asia Minor Persia – Nation in Iran Petra Philistia – Original name of Palestine Phrygia – Nation in Asia Minor Phut Phoenicia...
Look up trivet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shai, Itzhaq (2011). "Philistia and the Philistines in the Iron Age IIA". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins...
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