Yisra'el
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- Names
Yisra'el
Yisrael
Medinat Israel
Isrā'īl
Dawlat Isrá'īl
Israel
State of Israel
Israël
Êtat d'Israël
ISR
IL
ISO376
IS00
Israeli
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Area inhabited 100,000 BCE; farming and herding by 10,000 BCE; ruled by Hebrews, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and Ottomans; shares name with kingdom existing 1025-933 BCE; much strife between Israel and neighbors since 1948; holds territory from the 1967 "Six Day War"; official languages are Hebrew and Arabic.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1990); Britannica Book of the Year (1991); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Britannica Book of the Year (1994); CIA, World Fact Book (1995); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2002); Holy Land, National Geographic (1989); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); Middle East, National Geographic (1991); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)...
- Born
Jonathan Torgovnik (Israeli, active United States, born 1969)
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