1948 - Present Day
- Israel
- Palestine
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**1920 AD - 1948 AD**
* Mandatory Palestine
* Ruled by British Empire
* Majority of the approximately 750,000 people in this multi-ethnic region were Arabic-speaking Muslims
* Jews accounted for 11% of the total
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**1872 AD - 1917 AD**
* Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
* Province ruled by Ottoman Empire
* Demographics: inhabitants identified themselves primarily on religious terms, 84% being Muslim Arabs.
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**1517 AD - 1872 AD**
* Jerusalem Sanjak
* Ruled by Ottoman Empire
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**1291 AD - 1517 AD**
* General region ruled by Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate
* During this period, the majority population was now Muslim
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**1099 AD - 1291 AD**
* Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
* Ruled as a Catholic Crusader State of mostly French Rulers
* Demographics:
* The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syriac Orthodox
* There were also a small number of Jews and Samaritans.
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**630 AD - 1099 AD**
* Jund Filastin
* Ruled by Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates
* Demographics:
* Inhabited mainly by Aramaic-speaking Miaphysite Christian peasants.
* The population did not become predominantly Muslim and Arab in identity until several centuries after the conquest.
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**395 AD - 630 AD**
* Palestine Prima + Secunda
* Ruled by Byzantine Empire
* Demographics: Majority Greek-speaking Byzantine Christians and Christian Ghassanid Arabs
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**44 AD - 390 AD**
* Province of Judea (later renamed Syria Palaestina)
* Ruled by Roman Empire
* At the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132 AD), Jewish settlement in Judea had nearly been eradicated.
* By the 400s AD, Christians formed a majority in Palestine and Jerusalem.
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**37BC - 44AD**
* Herodian Dynasty Judea
* Semi-independent client state of Rome
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**332 BC - 37BC**
* Hasmonean Dynasty Judea
* Varying degrees of independence and client state status under the Hellenistic Seleucids (Alexander the Great’s Macedonian Empire) and then Roman Republic
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**539 BC - 332 BC**
* Yehud Medinata
* Ruled by Persian Empire
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**586 BC - 539 BC**
* Yehud Province
* Ruled by Neo-Babylonian Empire
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**930 BC - 586 BC**
- Kingdoms of Israel + Judah
- Independent Jewish Kingdoms
- Philistia
- Ruled by Neo-Babylonian Empire
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**1047 BC - 930 BC**
- United Kingdom of Israel
- 1st Independent Jewish Kingdom
- Philistia
- Aegean (Greek) Philistines who mixed with the local
Canaanite population
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