The Roman provinces (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor.. For centuries it was the largest administrative unit of the foreign possessions of ancient Rome.

Judaea (Latin: Iudaea; Greek: Ἰουδαία Iudaia) was a Roman province which incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, and extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Judea. It was named after Herod Archelaus's Tetrarchy of Judaea, but the Roman province encompassed a much larger territory.The name "Judaea" was …