DESCRIBING PALESTINE IN 1695 ADRIANI RELANDI
The book is written in Latin. In 1695. Describing Palestine. The author Adriani Relandi was a geographer, traveler, and philologist; he was fluent in several languages, including Arabic, Ancient Greek, and Hebrew. He mapped 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible.
The results:
He first created the map of Palestine. He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible with its original name.
acknowledged that the country’s origins were
1) The country is mainly empty, abandoned, and sparsely populated, with the main population centers being Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria, and Gaza.
2) Most of the population is Jewish, almost everyone else is Christian, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.
3) In Nazareth, approximately 700 people lived, all of whom were Christians.
4) In Jerusalem, there are approximately 5,000 people, almost all of whom are Jewish.
5) In 1695, it was widely known that the country’s origin was Jewish.
6) No settlement in Palestine has Arabic roots in its name.
7) Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases, Greek or Roman, or Latin. Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an
9) About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians.
The book completely refutes theories about “Palestinian traditions”, “Palestinian people”, and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs, who even stole the land’s Latin name, Palestine, for themselves.
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