Judea is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel, an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank (itself partly under Palestinian Authority administration and Israeli military rule).
The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaption of the name “Judah”, which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite trine of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The area was the site of the Hasmonean Kingdom and the later Kingdom of Judah, a client Kingdom of the Roman Empire.
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