Latin form of *Judah. Name of the Southern Kingdom of the Jews which came under Roman rule in 63BCE. At that period, Jews also lived in the north in the region of Galilee. After the *Bar Kokhba revolt was crushed in 135CE, Judea was renamed Palaestina....

Judea or Judæa (Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yəhuda Tiberian Yəhûḏāh, "praised, celebrated"; Greek: Ιουδαία; Latin: Iudaea) is the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל Eretz Yisrael), an area...