Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Palestine | Yes | No | No | No |
Samaria | Yes | No | No | No |
Palestine (noun) | Samaria (noun) |
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an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism | an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan |
a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 | |
state combining the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and currently under Israeli occupation |