Judaea (Roman province)
province of the Roman Empire (6–135 CE)
7 dated entries naming Judaea (Roman province), drawn from 7 separate years between 6 CE and 136 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
Also written as Iudaea, Iudaea Province in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.
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1st century
- 6AD 6 – Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces.source
- 36Marcellus becomes governor of Judaea and Samaria.source
- 44(Approximate date, may be as late as 48) A famine takes place in Judea.source
- 50In Judaea, a Roman soldier seizes and burns a Torah scroll. Procurator Cumanus has the culprit beheaded, calming down local Jews and delaying for almost two decades the outbreak of their revolt.source
- 70Neapolis (present-day Nablus) is founded in Iudaea Province.source
2nd century
- 117Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Roman general in Judea (b. AD 70)source
- 136Following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Emperor Hadrian expels the Jews from Judea, and receives a triumphal arch near Scythopolis. The Roman province of Iudaea (plus Galilee) becomes Syria Palaestina (the name Palestine as a designation for this land has been used since at least the 5th century BC (mentioned by Herodotus)).source
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- Galilee (1)
- Herodotus (1)
- Syria Palaestina (1)
- Nablus (1)