The Herodian Kingdom of Judea was a client state of the Roman Republic from 37 BCE, when Herod the Great was appointed "King of the Jews" by the Roman Senate. When Herod died in 4 BCE, the kingdom was divided among his sons into the Herodian Tetrarchy Background Roman ...

The Herodian Tetrarchy was formed following the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, when his kingdom was divided between his sons Herod Archelaus as ethnarch, Herod Antipas and Philip as tetrarchs in inheritance, while Herod's sister Salome I briefly ruled a toparchy of Jamnia.Upon the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE, his territories (Judea, Samaria and Idumea) were …

The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הגדה המערבית, romanized: HaGadah HaMaʽaravit), also referred to by some Israelis as Judea and Samaria (יהודה ושומרון, Yehuda VeShomron), is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean in Western Asia.It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and ...

The United Monarchy (Hebrew: הממלכה המאוחדת ‎) is the name given to the united Israelite kingdom of Israel and Judah during the reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible.It is traditionally dated to have lasted between 1047 BCE and 930 BCE. On the succession of Solomon's son Rehoboam in c. 930 BCE, the Biblical account reports that the …