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The Philistines and Philistia as a distinct geo-political entity: late Bronze Age to 500 BC -- The conception of Palestine in classical antiquity and during the Hellenistic empires (500-135 BC) -- From Philistia to Provincia 'Syria Palaestina' (135 AD-390 AD): the administrative province of Roman Palestine -- The (three in one) Provincia Palaestina: the three administrative provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th centuries AD) -- Arab Christian Palestine: the pre-Islamic Arab kings, bishops and poets and tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd-early 7th centuries AD) -- The Arab province of Jund Filastin (638-1099 AD): continuities, adaption and transformation of Palestine under Islam -- Between Egypt and al-Sham: Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman periods -- Palestinian statehood in the 18th century: early modernities and practical sovereignty in Palestine -- Being Palestine, becoming Palestine: rediscovery and new representations of modern Palestine and their impact on Palestinian national identity -- Settler-colonialism and disinheriting the Palestinians: the appropriation of Palestinian place names by the Israeli state.