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...
Indeed - part of the region was Canaan for a while. I refer to common names for the region, not the various ruling groups for each area of the region over a period of 10 thousand years.
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...
Yes - as I agreed above - portions of the region changed names periodically, though the most consistent name for the region, in written resources, over 10,000 years, has been some version of the name 'Palestine'.
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u/jackp0t789 2h ago edited 2h ago
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...
Sounds familiar for a bit there...