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Hellenistic period and the Kingdom of Hasmonean Judea. The Hellenistic period began with Alexander the Great 's conquest of Palestine in 332 BCE and ended with Pompey's conquest of Palestine in 63 BCE. Alternatively, it can be considered to end with the victory of Rome's client king, Herod the Great, over the last Hasmonean king of Judea in 37 BCE.
301 BC: Ptolemy I Soter conquered the region from the heirs of Alexander the Great. 200 BC: Antiochus III the Great from the Seleucid dynasty conquered the region from the Ptolemaic dynasty. 167–160 BC: Maccabean Revolt. 160–63 BC: The independent rule of the Hasmoneans. 63 BC-37 BC: Roman and Parthian influence.
Hellenistic Palestine [115] [116] [117] is the term for Palestine during the Hellenistic period, [118] when Achaemenid Syria was conquered by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE and subsumed into his growing Macedonian empire. The conquest was relatively uncomplicated as Persian control of the region had already waned. [119]
The history of the State of Palestine describes the creation and evolution of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the British mandate period, numerous plans of partition of Palestine were proposed but without the agreement of all parties. In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for.
This timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict lists events from 1948 to the present. ... During the same period, excluding the Suez War, 258 Israeli soldiers ...
635: As Byzantine rule ended and Muslim rule began: Parkes: [ 19 ] Est. 150,000–400,000 Jews in all Palestine. Crown et al.: Palaestina Prima only, which did not include Galilee, had a population of 700,000, incl. 100,000 Jews and 30–80,000 Samaritans, [ 20 ] with the remaining 520-570,000 Chalcedonian and Miaphysite Christians.
Palestine demographics, 1st century through the Mandate. Figures in thousands, i.e. 100 represents 100,000, 1,000 represents 1,000,000. See also the detailed timeline Year Jews Christians Muslims Total 1st c. Majority – – ~1,250 4th c. Majority Minority – >1st c. 5th c. Minority Majority – >1st c. End 12th c. Minority Minority Majority >225 14th c. Minority Minority Majority 150 1533 ...
During the Byzantine period, the region of Palestine within Syria Palaestina was subdivided into Palaestina Prima and Secunda, [27] and an area of land including the Negev and Sinai became Palaestina Salutaris. [27] Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic.