page_title: Yehud Medinata
hierarchical_section_title: Yehud Medinata
caption_attribution_description: English: Palestine under the Persians; Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land by George Adam Smith in 1915. Showing Judea as pink and Samaria as green
context_page_description: Yehud Medinata, or simply Yehud, was a colony of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, ruled by mostly Jewish governors. The territory was considerably smaller and with a far thinner population than its predecessor, the kingdom of Judah. The area of Yehud Medinata corresponded to the previous Babylonian province of Yehud, which was formed after the fall of the kingdom of Judah to the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Yehud Medinata, part of the Persian satrapy of Eber-Nari, continued to exist for two centuries, until being incorporated into the Hellenistic empires following the conquests of Alexander the Great.
context_section_description: Yehud Medinata (Aramaic for Province of Judah), or simply Yehud, was a colony of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, ruled by mostly Jewish governors. The territory was considerably smaller and with a far thinner population than its predecessor, the kingdom of Judah. The area of Yehud Medinata corresponded to the previous Babylonian province of Yehud, which was formed after the fall of the kingdom of Judah to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (597 BCE after its conquest of the Mediterranean east coast, and again in 587/586 BCE after suppressing an unsuccessful Judean revolt). Yehud Medinata, part of the Persian satrapy of Eber-Nari, continued to exist for two centuries, until being incorporated into the Hellenistic empires following the conquests of Alexander the Great.
caption: Yehud Medinata (in pink) under the Persian Empire
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