For more info, not mine, but some information maybe someone might be able to correct.
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, (for those who lived in Palestine), the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE (1200 to 1101 BC) occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv–Yafo and Gaza
By the time Tel Aviv was founded as a separate city during Ottoman rule of the region, Jaffa had been ruled by the Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Phoenicians, Ptolemies, Seleucids, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, the early Islamic caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubids, and Mamluks before coming under Ottoman rule in 1515. It had been fought over numerous times.
The name, Tel Aviv was chosen in 1910 by Theodor Herzl's Altneuland ("Old New Land") from several suggestions, including “Herzliya". It was fitting as it embraced the idea of a renaissance in the ancient Jewish homeland.
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