Bar Kokhba's revolt

Judea , sometimes spelled in its original Latin form Iudaea to distinguish from Judea proper, is a term used by historians to refer to the Roman... province that incorporated Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, and which extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after Herod Archelaus's Tetrarchy of Judea, of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE. Rome's involvement in the area dated from 63 BCE, following the end of the Third Mithridatic War, when Rome made Syria a province. In that year, after the defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus, the proconsul Pompeius Magnus lay siege to and entered the Jerusalem Temple. Subsequently, during the 1st century BCE, the Herodian Kingdom was established as a Roman client kingdom and then in 6 CE parts became a province of the Roman Empire. Judaea was the stage of three major rebellions . These are the Great Jewish Revolt , the Kitos War , and Bar Kokhba's revolt .
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The Jewish–Roman wars were a series of large-scale revolts by the Jews of Iudaea Province and Eastern Mediterranean against the Roman Empire.... Some sources use the term to refer only to the First Jewish–Roman War and Bar Kokhba revolt . Other sources include the Kitos War as one of the Jewish–Roman wars; however this revolt started among the Jewish diaspora in Cyrenaica, and only its final stages were actually fought within Judaea Province. The Jewish-Roman Wars left an epic impact on the Jews, turning them from a major population in the Eastern Mediterranean to a scattered and persecuted minority. The events also include a major impact on Judaism, as the central worship of Judaism, the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus' troops. Though Samaritans gained some sort of autonomy in the 4th century and later the Jews succeeded in establishing a short living Jewish Sassanid Commonwealth in 614 CE, the actual dominance of Israelites in parts of the Southern Levant was regained only in the early 20th century.
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