1560 because of their phonetic similarity and which site is located in the territory given by lot to the tribe of Judah.

Modern name for judea. Judea seems the logical choice. The regions Israelite name is from the Hebrew root. 733 BCE is the earliest known record of the name Judah written in Assyrian cuneiformas Yaudaya or KURia-ú-da-a-a.

The Judea and Samaria Area covers a portion of the territory designated by the ancient names Judea and SamariaSamaria corresponds to part of the ancient Kingdom of Israel also known as the Northern KingdomJudea corresponds to part of the ancient Kingdom of Judah also known as the Southern KingdomThe terminology was also noted by the UN in the 1947 partition plan when it. Yehuda is the Hebrew term used for the area inmodernIsrael since the region was captured and occupied by Israel in 1967. But Judea would also have been a good choice.

Judea was the name of the southernmost Roman division of Palestine. Judea is very small apart from the Shephelah and the plain Judea was 55 miles long from Bethlehem to Beersheba and from 25 to 30 miles wide about 1350 square miles and nearly one-half was desert. On the E was the Jordan and its valley and on the W the desert then the hill country then the Shephelah or low hills.

Most people had thought that the state would be called Judea Yhudah in Hebrew. Judea Iudaea was the Roman name for the Land of Israel during the heyday of the Roman Empire. So when the modern state was created Israel was the name chosen.

Galilee Panhandle is a common term referring to the panhandle in the east that extends to the north where Lebanon is to the west and includes Hula. Nimrud Tablet K3751 dated c. Samaria means watch mountain and is the name of both a city and a territory.

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram saying Unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river the river Euphrates. In modern terminology the term Greater Israel is meant by some to be the borders of modern Israel plus the Palestinian territories. The region of Samaria on the other hand refers to the area north of Jerusalem.