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Province, 117 CE

Iudaea

Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: Caesarea Maritima

Annexed outright in 6 CE, then again after the catastrophic Jewish Revolt of 66–73 CE that ended with the Temple's destruction and Jerusalem's razing. By 117 the province is deep in a second, less-remembered crisis — the Kitos War, a wave of diaspora Jewish revolts Trajan's Berber general Lusius Quietus was actively suppressing the very month Trajan died. Legio X Fretensis garrisoned the ruins of Jerusalem itself.

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Sources

  • Josephus, The Jewish War
  • Cassius Dio, Roman History 68.32 (Kitos War)

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