The Hashemites, ousted from Saudi Arabia by the Saud clan, moved to Iraq and the region called Trans-Jordan, which would later become Jordan. Like Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, this region had never existed as a territorial entity, having been invented by the British. At the same time, in an adjacent region west of the Jordan River, there was a region formerly administered by Ottoman Syria. It was called Filistin, after the Philistines, whose hero Goliath defeated David. The British took the term Filistin, Greekized it, and invented the term Palestine. From 1880 onward, Jews from the European diaspora also began settling in this area. The migratory movement accelerated enormously after the Second World War.
