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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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