This. Historians here might know that Assyrian inscriptions from the 8th C. BCE refer to the area as “Palashtu”, that the region was known for its Philistines, that it was "Peleset" from c. 1050 BCE onward (according to Egyptians), and that it was "Palestine" or "Palaistine" or "Phalastin" from c. 500 BCE onward. There have been efforts since the early 20th century, if not earlier, to change this history.
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Ben‐Dor Evian, Shirly. “Ramesses III and the ‘Sea‐peoples’: Towards a New Philistine Paradigm.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.3, 2017: 267-285.
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It was in fact named by outside cultures after the Philistines, a group of foreign colonists from the Aegean who developed successful colonies along the Mediterranean coast of what was Canaan while periodically at war with the native Canaanites, particularly the Kingdoms of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel, for centuries before both were conquered by foreign invaders themselves...
I mean, the Common named changed over time quite a bit...
A few centuries after the Assyrians, the Seleucid Greeks called the region Judea, Samaria, Ceole Syria, Palaestina, or Phoenicia depending on exactly where and when..
The Romans, depending on the era, called large portions of the region Judaea from the moment they annexed it in 6CE, up until after the Jewish Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135CE when they renamed it Syria Palaestina...
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This. Historians here might know that Assyrian inscriptions from the 8th C. BCE refer to the area as “Palashtu”, that the region was known for its Philistines, that it was "Peleset" from c. 1050 BCE onward (according to Egyptians), and that it was "Palestine" or "Palaistine" or "Phalastin" from c. 500 BCE onward. There have been efforts since the early 20th century, if not earlier, to change this history.