Syria : a lecture / delivered by Winslow Jones, to the members of the Exeter Literary Society, at the Athenaeum, Exeter, November 16th, 1870.
- Jones, Winslow.
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Syria : a lecture / delivered by Winslow Jones, to the members of the Exeter Literary Society, at the Athenaeum, Exeter, November 16th, 1870. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![though the name occurs in Homer, it is not found in the Old Testament. The name of 14 Palestina occurs in Herodotus, but three times only in the Bible, namely, once in the Song of Moses,15 and twice in Isaiah,16 and was applied to Pliilistia, the coast country of the Philistines, from which it took its derivation, and the Homans used it in the same sense, though it was afterwards trans- ferred, as we now use it, to the territory formerly held by the Israelites. Phoenicia comprised the coast from the river Eleu- therus to a little below Carmel, and had a length of about 160 miles, with a breadth, in the widest part, of about ]5. Pliilistia comprised the strip of coast to the south, while the country which we call Pales- tine formed the central district, extending from Dan to Beerslieba, and including also the port of Joppa, or Jaffa as it is now called, and the portion of coast between Phoenicia and Pliilistia. I must not attempt to give the various other names and divisions by which the whole country was known at different periods of its history ; but, at the com- mencement of our era, the country west of the Jordan and of the Lakes was divided into Galilee on the north, Samaria in the centre, and Judea on the south, while the country to the east was known as Peroea. At present, Syria is divided into the pachalics of Tripoli, Acre, and Jaffa, on the coast, and the pachalic of Damascus, which includes Jerusalem, in the interior. Palestine, though it has played so important a part 14 Rawlinson’s Herodotus, vol. i, p. 580. 15 Exodus, xv. 14. 10 Isaiah, xiv. 29 and 31.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22400266_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
