High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Philistines were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. Their origin has been debated among scholars. There is not enough information of the original language of the Philistines to relate it securely to any other languages, although it is theorized that immigrant Philistines originated among "sea peoples". Modern archaeology has also suggested early cultural links with the Mycenean world in Greece.