The name Philistine (Egyptian Peleset, Hebrew Pelishtim, modern Arabic Falastin) seems to be related to Greek Pelasgoi or Pelasgians, the Greek name for the indigenous inhabitants of the Greek peninsula before the arrival of the Hellenic Greeks. The theory is that they were driven out by the inward migration of the Hellenes and spread out to other areas of the eastern Mediterranean such as Crete, Egypt, and Canaan. It certainly seems likely that the modern inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are descended from the biblical Philistines.