Baada ya muda, na hasa tangu Vespasian (Mfalme kuanzia mwaka 69

In the course of time, and especially from Vespasian (Emperor from 69

Kuanzia (takriban mwaka 79 BK) na kuendelea, neno Palaestina lilianza kuchukua nafasi ya jina refu la Kiroma la jimbo la ‘Syria Palaestina’. Mipaka ya kieneo ya Palaestina wakati wa Warumi ilijumuisha eneo la pwani ya Palestina, Idumaea, Yudea, Samaria, Perasa (kaskazini mwa Yordani ya sasa) na Trachonitis (Arabu ya sasa, Lajat), kusini-mashariki mwa Dameski. Wakifuata Herodotus na fasihi ya kale, dhana hii ya Kiroma ya Palestina ilitumika kwa nchi kwa maana pana zaidi: kwa eneo la kusini mwa Levant kati ya Lebanoni ya sasa na Misri. Mabadiliko haya ya istilahi kutoka jimbo rasmi la Kiroma la ‘Syria Palaestina’ lililoanzishwa na Maliki Hadrian hadi msisitizo zaidi na zaidi juu ya Palestina yanaonekana katika kazi za waandishi muhimu wa Kiroma kama Strabo, Pliny Mzee na Pomponius Mela, na waandishi wa kale wa Kiyahudi wakiwemo Josephus na Philo wa Alexandria.

to 79 AD) onwards, the term Palaestina began to supersede the longer Roman name of the province of ‘Syria Palaestina’. The territorial boundaries of Palaestina in the time of the Romans embraced the coastal region of Palestine, Idumaea, Judaea, Samaria, Perasa (northern modern Jordan) and Trachonitis (modern Arab, Lajat), south-east of Damascus. Following Herodotus and classical literature, this Roman conception of Palestine applied to the country in the wider sense: to the area of the southern Levant between modern Lebanon and Egypt. The shift in the terminology from the official Roman province of ‘Syria Palaestina’ introduced by Emperor Hadrian to more and more emphasis on Palestine is reflected in the works of important Roman writers such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela and classical Jewish authors including Josephus and Philo of Alexandria.