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Judaea (Latin: Iudaea [juːˈdae̯.a]; Ancient Greek: Ἰουδαία, romanized: Ioudaía) was a Roman province from 6 to 132 AD, which incorporated the Levantine regions of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, extending over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Judea.
1,020 m or 3,350 ft. ( Mount Hebron) Judea or Judaea ( / dʒuːˈdiːə, dʒuːˈdeɪə /; [1] Hebrew: יהודה, Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yehūḏā; Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iudaea) is a mountainous region of the Levant. Traditionally dominated by the city of Jerusalem, it is now part of Palestine and Israel.
- יְהוּדָה
- Southern Levant
- 1,020 m or 3,350 ft (Mount Hebron)
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The Roman provinces ( Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor. [1]
Provincia Iudaea, also known as Judea, was a Roman province located in the southern Levant, corresponding roughly to the region of modern-day Israel and parts of the West Bank and Jordan. Here's an overview of the province: Conquest and Formation:
Judea was the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Judea lost its Nationhood to the Romans in the 1st century BC, by becoming first a tributary kingdom, then a province, of the Roman Empire. The first interference of Rome in the region dates from 63 BC, following the end of the Third Mithridatic war.
