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Judaea or Judea [Lat. from Judah ], region, Greco-Roman name for S Palestine. It varied in size in different periods. In the time of Jesus it was both part of the province of Syria and a kingdom ruled by the Herods. It was the southernmost of the Roman divisions of Palestine, the others being Galilee, Samaria, and Peraea. Idumaea was S of Judaea. A strip of Samaria lay between Judaea and the Mediterranean. The former region of Judaea was occupied by Israel after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war (see West Bank ).

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Judaea. In Christ's time the term normally meant the most southern of the three districts (Galilee, Samaria, and Judaea) into which Palestine, west of the Jordan, was divided, but it could be used in a wider sense of the whole of Palestine.

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