"Palestine" described in 1695 from the book "Palestina"

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"Palestine" described in 1695 from the book "Palestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata".

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The book "Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata". The book is written in Latin. In 1695. Relandi described what was then called Palestine.

The writer Hadriani Relandi is a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist, knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew. He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible. The research was conducted as follows:

• He first created the map of Palestine. He then determined every settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud by its original name.

• If the original was Jewish, it means "verse" (a suggestion in the Holy Scriptures that mentioned the name.)

• If the original was Roman or Greek, the composition was in Latin or Greek.

• In the end he did a population census according to settlements

Here are the main conclusions and some facts:

• The country is mostly empty, promiscuous, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberias and Gaza.

• The majority of the population is Jewish, almost all Christians, very few Muslims, mainly Bedouins.

• The only exception is Nablus (now Nablus), where about 120 people from the Muslim family left and about 70 "Samaritans" (Samaritans).

• About 700 people lived in Nazareth, the capital of the Galilee - all Christians.

• There are about 5,000 people in Jerusalem, almost all Jews and a few Christians.

• In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the state was Jewish.

• There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arab roots in its name.

• Most of the settlements have a Jewish origin, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.

• Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arab name. Jewish, Greek or Latin names changed to Arabic that do not make any sense in Arabic. In Arabic there is no meaning in names like: Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Jenin, and names like Ramallah, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Al-Quds (Jerusalem) - they have no Arabic philological or historical roots. For example, in 1696 Ramallah was called Beit El (Beit El, House of God), Hebron was called Hebron and the Cave of the Double was called Al-Khalil (Abraham's nickname) by the Arabs.

• Relandi mentions Muslims only as nomadic Bedouins who came to the cities as seasonal workers in agriculture or construction sites.

• Approximately 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews succeeded in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians engaged in trade and transport.

• Jews lived in Tiberias and Safed, but their occupation is not mentioned, with the exception of traditional fishing in the Sea of ​​Galilee.

• In the village of Umm El Fahm, for example, 10 families lived, all Christians (about 50 people). A small Maronite church stood there.

The book completely refutes the theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no connection between the land and the Arabs who even stole the Latin name of the land (Palestine) and took it for themselves.

Hadriani Relandi's (1718-1676) book on Palestine was published in Utrecht in 1714.

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