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    How many cities have been the capital of Palestine?

    Question #93400. Asked by author. (Mar 11 08 7:02 AM)


    whee

    		Gaza City
    http://www.list.org/~mdoyle/Fertile.html

    Ramla
    http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-342391/Palestine-s-forgotten-capital-Andrew.html

    Al-Quds (Jerusalem) (disputed)
    http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/maps11_03/maps.htm

    Mar 11 08, 7:54 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		That's the modern entity known as the Palestinian Authority. Several cities such as Nazareth, Samaria, Tiberias, Caesaria and Beit Shemesh have served as the capitals of their respective regions in Roman Times, during which the entire area between the Jordan River Valley and the Mediterranian were collectively called Palestina (Palestine). For much of the time this area was split into two main provinces of Palestinia Judea in the south and Palestina Gallilea in the north.

    Mar 11 08, 10:28 AM
    author

    		None of Whee's answers refer to today's Palestinian Authority. All of them were capitals in earlier times.

    For example, Gaza City became the capital of Palestine in 1660. And Ramla, indeed, is in today's Israel and should not be confused with Ramallah on the West Bank, which some count as the unofficial 'capital' of the Palestinian Authority.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza

    Ramla served as the Umayyad and Abbasid capital of the Province of Palestine (Jund Filistin), and the seat of Arab governors of the province in the 8th and 9th centuries.

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Archaeology/Ramla.html

    Jerusalem/Al Quds is listed because it was the capital of the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-48.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine

    Mar 11 08, 11:19 AM

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