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Philistine
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Philistine

Member of a seafaring people of non-Semitic origin who founded city-states on the Palestinian coastal plain in the 12th century BC, adopting a Semitic language and religion.

At war with the Israelites in the 11th-10th centuries BC, they were largely absorbed into the kingdom of Israel under King David, about 1000 BC, and later came under Assyrian rule.



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