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Holy Land

Modern name
Holy Land
We have used the Anglophone term Holy Land to aggregate toponymic variants of both Palestine (Palestina) and Holy Land (Terra Santa), as both terms were used by medieval Europeans to refer to the Levant. See also Judea.
Coordinates
32.42, 35.52

The toponym Holy Land appears in La Sfera in the following places:

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Map of the location P071

Variant spellings of Holy Land in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
GIUDEA • PADESTINA Pnc5
PALESTINA Pnc5
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Holy Land.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/holy-land/.