Yehud (Persian province)

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Yehud (Persian province) was a small Achaemenid Persian imperial province in the region of Judah, centered on Jerusalem and serving as the administrative and religious heart of the post-exilic Jewish community.

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Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Achaemenid province
historical region
province of Judah
administrativeCenter Jerusalem
archaeologicalEvidence Yehud coin hoards
seal impressions reading "Yehud"
capital Jerusalem
centralInstitution Second Temple in Jerusalem
currency Yehud coinage
economy agriculture
tribute and taxation to Persia
endEvent conquests of Alexander the Great
endPeriod late 4th century BCE
ethnicMajority Jews
followedBy Ptolemaic rule in Judea
Yehud (Hellenistic province)
governedBy Jewish local elites
Persian-appointed governors
historicalSource Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

books of Ezra and Nehemiah
keyEvent rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls under Nehemiah
rebuilding of the Temple
religious reforms of Ezra
language Aramaic
Hebrew
legalStatus imperial province
locatedIn Judah
Levant region
surface form: Southern Levant

Ancient Near East
surface form: ancient Near East
neighbor Idumea
Philistia
Samaria
surface form: Samaria (Persian province)
partOf Achaemenid Empire
Satrapy of Egypt
surface form: satrapy of Eber-Nari
politicalSystem provincial administration under satrap
population post-exilic Jewish community
precededBy Kingdom of Judah
religion Judaism
Yahwism
religiousCenter Jerusalem
religiousRole center of post-exilic Judaism
rulingDynasty Achaemenid dynasty
sovereign Artaxerxes I of Persia
surface form: Artaxerxes I

Cyrus the Great
Darius I of Persia
surface form: Darius I

Xerxes I
startEvent Babylonian exile return
Cyrus the Great’s decree
startPeriod 6th century BCE
writingSystem Aramaic script
Hebrew script

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Input
Subject: Yehud (Persian province)
Description of subject: Yehud (Persian province) was a small Achaemenid Persian imperial province in the region of Judah, centered on Jerusalem and serving as the administrative and religious heart of the post-exilic Jewish community.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zerubbabel governedTerritory Yehud (Persian province)
Nehemiah governed Yehud (Persian province)
this entity surface form: Yehud (Persian province of Judah)
Joiakim son of Jeshua country Yehud (Persian province)
Gedaliah ben Ahikam governorOf Yehud (Persian province)
this entity surface form: Yehud (province)