The book is written in Latin.
Written in 1695, published in 1716.
Describing Palestine. The author Adriani Relandi was a geographer, traveler, philologist, he knew several languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew. He visited 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible.
The results:
He first created the map of Palestine.
He then designated every settlement mentioned in the Bible with its original name. Here some facts:
1) The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.
2) Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.
3) In Nazareth, approximately 700 people lived – all Christians.
4) In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews.
5) In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
6) There is no settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.
7) Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
8) Apart from the city of Ramla, there is no Arab settlement that has an original Arabic name.
9) About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians.
The book completely refutes theories about „Palestinian traditions“, „Palestinian people“ and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land’s Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves.
Book by Adrian Reland (1676-1718).