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Judea or Judaea (/ dʒ uː ˈ d iː ə, dʒ uː ˈ d eɪ ə /; [1] Hebrew: יהודה, Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yehūḏā; Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iudaea) is a mountainous region of the Levant. Traditionally dominated by the city of Jerusalem, it is now part of Palestine and Israel.
The Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized: Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized: Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division used by the State of Israel to refer to the entire West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but excludes East Jerusalem (see Jerusalem Law).
The Kingdom of Judah was located in the Judean Mountains, stretching from Jerusalem to Hebron and into the Negev Desert.The central ridge, ranging from forested and shrubland-covered mountains gently sloping towards the hills of the Shephelah in the west, to the dry and arid landscapes of the Judaean Desert descending into the Jordan Valley to the east, formed the kingdom's core.
East of the plain and the Shfela is a mountainous ridge, the "hill country of Judea" in the south, the "hill country of Ephraim" north of that, then Galilee and Mount Lebanon. To the east again lie the steep-sided valley occupied by the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and the wadi of the Arabah, which continues down to the eastern arm of the Red ...
The current name for Bethlehem in local languages is Bayt Laḥm ... located in the "hill country" of Judea, ... On Christmas Day 1100, ...
Judea or Judæa is the ancient biblical, Roman, and modern name of the mountainous southern part of Palestine. The name of the region continued to be incorporated through the Babylonian conquest, Persian , Hellenistic , and Roman periods as Babylonian and Persian Yehud, Hasmonean Judea, and consequently Herodian and Roman Judea, respectively.
Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...
Strabo describes western Judea as being populated by Idumeans, who commingled with Judeans and adopted their customs. [ 106 ] Archaeological records gleaned from Maresha , though largely of Idumaean origin, attest to the region being under the influences of Hellenistic culture , as well as that of Nabatean/Arab, Phoenician , Palmyrene and ...