Syria Palaestina

Etymology
. In renaming the conquered province of, 2nd century AD Roman Emperor formally adopted a name that had been in use as a Græco-Roman geographic term since at least the time of 5th century BC historian , who repeatedly wrote in his dialectal , meaning the part of Syria that is Palestine. Syria was understood to refer to a broader geographic region encompassing multiple smaller territories, with Syria Palaestina the southernmost part of Syria, bordered to the north by, followed by , south of.

(Compare, etc.)

Proper noun



 * 1) A geographic region of the Levant encompassing the southern part of ancient Syria, between Phoenicia and Egypt along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to the northwest of Arabia; roughly equating to Palestine.
 * 2) The name given by the emperor  to the Roman province of  following the crushing of the  in 135 AD; later divided into the provinces of,  and . The province of Syria was divided in 197 AD into  and.