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The Jews would revolt against Rome, with Jerusalem being sacked in 70 CE.

By this point Israelite/Jews had been living on this land – as Israelites – for over 1,500 years.
(With their Canaanitic ancestors present likely for thousands of years before that.)

Only after the defeat of the Bar Kochva Revolt was the region renamed “Palestine” – by the foreign European colonial power.

Left: Bar Kochva era coins
Right: Ptolemy’s 2nd century map of Roman Palestine (showing also Judea & Samaria).