philistia

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Philistia
    n 1: an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine
         that was strategically located on a trade route between
         Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Philistia
=Palestine (q.v.), "the land of the Philistines" (Ps. 60:8;
87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean "the land of
wanderers" or "of strangers."

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