Definition of judea Judea
/ʤudiˈʌ/ - [judeeu] - Ju•de•a
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What does judea mean?
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| judea - the southern part of ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ | ||
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- judea (Noun)
Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.
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judea
Biblical Jewish kingdom of the South, the capital of which was Jerusalem, contrasted with Israel, the Jewish kingdom of the North.
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Judea or Judaea (Hebrew: "Yehuda") is a term used for the mountainous southern part of the West Bank. In modern times, the name "Yehudah" is most often used by Zionists.
Judea is also the ancient name of the area surrounding Jerusalem (today, parts of Israel and the West Bank).
Major cities.
Major cities in this area are Hebron, Bethlehem, Efrat and Beitar Illit.
Ancient Judea.
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 BCE, following the end of the Third Mithridatic war.
After the defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus, general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) stayed behind to make the area secure for Rome. Judea at the time was not a peaceful place. Queen Alexandra had recently died, and her sons were troubling the country with a civil war for power. They were Hyrcanus and Aristobulus.
In 63 BCE, Aristobulus was surrounded in Jerusalem by his brother's armies, and the situation was bad. He sent a messenger to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Pompey's representative in the area. Aristobulus offered a large bribe to be rescued, that Pompey quickly accepted, but later, he tried to accuse Scaurus of extortion. This caused his downfall, because Scaurus was Pompey's brother in law and was protected by him. The general did not like what Aristobulus had done, and put the prin
