From The Kingdom of Judah To The Present
After the fall of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, political rule was held by the following powers:
- 586–539 BC: Neo-Babylonian Empire
- 539–332 BC: Achaemenid Empire (Yehud Medinata)
- 332–305 BC: Alexandrian Empire
- 305–198 BC: Ptolemaic Kingdom
- 198–141 BC: Seleucid Empire
- 141–37 BC: Initially independent Hasmonean Kingdom established by the Maccabees
- 63 BC: Siege of Jerusalem by Pompey, beginning of Roman dominance
- 37 BC– 4 BC: Herodian Kingdom of the Roman Empire
- 4 BC - 6 AD: Tetrarchy (Judea) of the Roman Empire
- 6-132: Judea (Roman province)
- 132-135 Independent Bar Kokhba state
- 135-390: Roman province reconquered and renamed Syria Palaestina
- 260-273 controlled by splinter Palmyrene Empire
- 390-638 Byzantine Palaestina Prima
- 602-625 Sassanid Jewish Commonwealth
- 638–1099: Arab Caliphates and subject rulers
- 1099–1187: Crusader states, most notably the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- 1187–1260: dominated by the Ayyubids of Egypt and Damascus
- 1260–1516: dominated by the Mamluks of Egypt
- 1516–1917: Ottoman Turks, having previously conquered the Byzantine Empire in 1453
- 1918–1948: British mandate of Palestine under, first, League of Nations, then, successor United Nations; the Emirate of Trans-Jordan was separated from the rest of Palestine in 1922, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan became independent upon the expiration of the League of Nations Mandate in 1946.
- May 1948 – June 1967: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, for the Old City of Jerusalem and the larger part of the area; State of Israel for a smaller strip of land in the west
- June 1967 to present: State of Israel
- 1993 to present: State of Israel and Palestinian territories
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Famous quotes containing the words the present, from the, kingdom and/or present:
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—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
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—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)