Syria Palaestina

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the Romans are the ones that named the Providence Syria Palestina in the second century success they ruled the area and the reason they did that is because remember the Philistines were the enemy of the Jews when they finally occupied the land after Moses and Jacob went in and they started to take over everything and they occupied the land and one of their enemies the i think it was the ancient cretes they were called a sea people were in western part of the land out of the mediterranean sea and they were the philistines and you could read through the new test or the old testament of the battles they had with the philistines and so knowing that the romans named it that kind of slapping the jews in the face It's also been under Islamic rule.

The Muslim armies conquered the region in the 630s and leading centuries of government under, remember the caliphates we talked about, the Rashidun, the Umayyad, the Abbasid, the Fatiman, and the Mameluke dynasties.

and then those were interrupted by the crusader kingdom of jerusalem we're not going to go into the details but those are some of the things i talked about last week now the ottoman control was from 1516 until world war one palestine remember the romans named it was part of the ottoman empire and it was divided into different uh administrative districts populated mostly mostly by sunni muslims alongside christian and jewish communities they were all together in that area remember they're sunni and shiite there's a division there and if you want to know some about that division go back to last week's podcast Now, the fall of the empire during World War I, British forces captured the region after defeating the Ottomans.