3.2 CI GABA DA CI GABA: DAGA ‘SYRIA PALAESTINA’ ZUWA PALAESTINA
3.2 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS: FROM ‘SYRIA PALAESTINA’ TO PALAESTINA
A cikin tsawon lokaci, musamman tun daga zamanin Vespasian (Sarkin Rome daga shekara ta 69
In the course of time, and especially from Vespasian (Emperor from 69
zuwa shekara ta 79 AD), sunan Palaestina ya fara maye gurbin dogon sunan Romawa na lardin, wato ‘Syria Palaestina’. Iyakokin yankin Palaestina a zamanin Romawa sun hada da yankin gabar teku na Falasdinu, Idumaea, Judaea, Samaria, Perasa (arewacin Jordan na yau) da Trachonitis (Arab na yau, Lajat), kudu maso gabashin Damascus. Bisa ga Herodotus da adabin zamanin dā, wannan fahimtar Romawa game da Falasdinu ta shafi kasar a ma'ana mafi fadi: yankin kudancin Levant tsakanin Lebanon na yau da Masar. Sauyin sunan daga lardin Romawa na hukuma ‘Syria Palaestina’, wanda Sarki Hadrian ya kafa, zuwa karin jaddada kalmar Falasdinu, ya bayyana a cikin ayyukan manyan marubutan Romawa kamar Strabo, Pliny the Elder da Pomponius Mela, da kuma manyan marubutan Yahudawa na zamanin dā irin su Josephus da Philo na Alexandria.