Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima

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The Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima was an administrative region of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Levant, centered on major cities such as Caesarea Maritima and Jerusalem during Late Antiquity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine province
late antique province
affectedBy Muslim conquest of the Levant
Sasanian invasion of the Levant
borderedBy Arabian Peninsula
surface form: Arabia

Palaestina Secunda
Palaestina Tertia
Phoenice
capital Caesarea Maritima
contains Judean Mountains
surface form: Judean hill country

coastal plain of Palestine
parts of the Jordan Valley
createdFrom Roman province of Judea
surface form: Roman province of Judaea

Roman Syria
surface form: Roman province of Syria Palaestina
establishedAfter administrative reforms of Constantine the Great
administrative reforms of Diocletian
establishedInCentury 4th century
existedInPeriod Late Antiquity
governedBy provincial governor
governorTitle praeses
importantSite Bethlehem
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Mount of Olives
judicialAuthority provincial governor
knownFor Christian holy places
monastic communities
pilgrimage routes
languageInAdministration Greek
languageInPopulation Aramaic
Greek
Latin
laterGovernorTitle consularis
locatedIn Diocese of the East
Levant region
surface form: Levant
majorCity Ascalon
Caesarea Maritima
Diospolis
Eleutheropolis
Gaza City
surface form: Gaza

Jerusalem
militaryAuthority dux Palaestinae
partOf Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
surface form: Eastern Roman Empire
religion Christianity
Judaism
Samaritanism
religiousCenter Jerusalem
religiousSignificance center of Christian pilgrimage
succeededBy early Muslim administrative districts in Bilad al-Sham

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Caesarea Maritima partOf Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
Hieronymus diedInRegion Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
this entity surface form: Province of Palaestina
Diospolis locatedIn Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus deathPlace Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
this entity surface form: Palaestina Prima
Procopius birthPlace Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
this entity surface form: Palaestina Prima
Lydda partOf Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
Siege of Jerusalem (636–637) geographicalContext Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
this entity surface form: Province of Palaestina Prima under Byzantine rule