Timeline of Palestine/Israel region
1948 - Present Day
- Israel
- Palestine
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
1872 AD - 1917 AD
- Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
- Province ruled by Ottoman Empire
- Demographics: inhabitants identified themselves primarily on religious terms, 84% being Muslim Arabs.
1517 AD - 1872 AD
- Jerusalem Sanjak
- Ruled by Ottoman Empire
1291 AD - 1517 AD
- General region ruled by Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate
- During this period, the majority population was now Muslim
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.
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.
395 AD - 630 AD
- Palestine Prima + Secunda
- Ruled by Byzantine Empire
- Demographics: Majority Greek-speaking Byzantine Christians and Christian Ghassanid Arabs
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.
37BC - 44AD
- Herodian Dynasty Judea
- Semi-independent client state of Rome
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
539 BC - 332 BC
- Yehud Medinata
- Ruled by Persian Empire
586 BC - 539 BC
- Yehud Province
- Ruled by Neo-Babylonian Empire
930 BC - 586 BC
- Kingdoms of Israel + Judah
- Independent Jewish Kingdoms
- Philistia
- Ruled by Neo-Babylonian Empire
1047 BC - 930 BC
United Kingdom of Israel
- 1st Independent Jewish Kingdom
Philistia
- Aegean (Greek) Philistines who mixed with the local Canaanite population