The Herodian Kingdom of Judea was a client state of the Roman Republic from 37 BCE, ... proceeded to spoil and harry the Jews, rejoicing at the restoration of the Hasmonean line, thought a new era of independence had come. When Phasael and Hyrcanus II set out on an embassy to the Parthians, the Parthians instead captured them. Antigonus, who ...

Rashi died, and the era of the Tosaphot began: 1135: 4895: The Rambam (Maimonides) was born: 1144: 4904: The first (recorded) blood libel took place: 1147: 4907: The Crusaders attacked Jewish communities: 1147: 4907: Rabbeinu Tam was captured by the Crusaders: 1148: 4908: The Rambam's and the Radak's families left Cordova: 1165: 4925: The ...

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 ...

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire.. The Byzantine era is usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital to Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. However, there was initially no hard line between the Byzantine and Roman empires, and early …