| History of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2905 words) |
 | Around 1200 BCE the Hittite empire was conquered by allied tribes from the north. |
| In 722 BCE, the northern Kingdom of Ephraim (commonly referred to as Israel, sometimes as Samaria) was destroyed by the Assyrians, the elite amongst its inhabitants were deported (giving rise to the legend of "the Lost Tribes") and replaced by settlers from elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire. |
| In 539 BCE the Babylonians were conquered by the Persian Empire, which held Palestine until the time of Alexander the Great, who conquered Gaza and the surrounding areas in the early 330s BCE. |
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