Judean desert

desert region with hills on the eastern limits of Israel

For the Roman Empire province, see Iudaea Province. [Image:Levant 830.svg|thumb|272px|Map of the southern Levant, c.830s BC. ]]Judea or Judæa (Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yəhuda Tiberian , "praised, celebrated"; Greek: Ιουδαία; Latin: Iudaea) is the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל Eretz Yisrael), an area now divided between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and, in a few geographical definitions of Judea, Jordan.
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