Pontius Pilate, is one of these first round of governors posted to the province of Judea, once it was given over to Roman military governorship. And the stone that we now have from Caesarea ...

The Roman province of Britannia included only England ... In Roman times Israel was called Judea. The Romans ruled it through local vassal kings but after a rebellion, took direct control of ...

In this way he demonstrates that the local peoples and rulers had objectives and policies of their own on which they acted, separate from Roman interests. From their perspective, the actions of, most ...

In A.D. 106, the emperor Trajan annexed the Nabataean territories, and the area became known as the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Overshadowed by Bostra (known today as Busra ash Sham), the ...

The Bar Kochba revolt was a rebellion by Jews in the Roman province of Judea against the Roman Empire. Led by Simon bar Kochba, the revolt began in 132 C.E. and lasted about five years.

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

Importantly, Jesus hailed from the Jewish kingdom of Judea (also known as Judah), “the southern province of [historic ... the third Jewish uprising, Roman forces massacred and expelled massive ...

According to Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro ... Emperor Claudius’ army conquered land in Turkey, Judea and Britain. Claudius’ invasion of Britain was commanded by General Aulus Plautius.

The Ramallah-based leading economic website Aliqtisadi on Sunday reported an increase of between 50% and 70% in requests from Arab residents of Judea and Samaria for travel visas to Europe or the US.

It first began as a Greek colony in 570 BC. The foundation said it was a major port in the Roman province of Moesia that ...