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JUDAEA , the name given to the See also:

southern See also:part of See also:Palestine as occupied by the Jewish community in See also:post-exilic days under See also:Persian, See also:Greek and See also:Roman overlordship. In See also:Luke and Acts the See also:term is sometimes used loosely to denote the whole of western Palestine. The limits of Judaea were never very precisely defined and—especially on the See also:northern frontier—varied from See also:time to time. After the See also:death of See also:Herod, See also:Archelaus became ethnarch of See also:Samaria, Idumea and Judaea, and when he was deposed Judaea was merged in See also:Syria, being governed by a See also:pro-See also:curator whose headquarters were in Caesarea. For a description of the natural features of the See also:country see PALESTINE; for its See also:history see See also:JEWS and See also:JUDAH. Cf. T. See also:Mommsen, The Provinces of the Roman See also:Empire, ch. xi.

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