FACT CHECK · PALESTINE: THE NAME AND THE IDENTITY
Claim: Old maps say 'Palestine', so it was a state
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
Fair: the British Palestine Exploration Fund (founded 1865) ran a 'Survey of Western Palestine' in 1871-1878, so the name was in use. But a name used for a place is not a sovereign state.
SOURCE
Palestine Exploration Fund history page; Conder & Kitchener, The Survey of Western Palestine (Memoirs)
pef.org.uk · archive.org
pef.org.uk · archive.org
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