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Yehud Medinata
Yehud State Yehud Medinata | |||||||||
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| c. 539 BCE–c. 332 BCE | |||||||||
 Obverse of Jewish Yehud, a silver coin from Persian period
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 Yehud Medinata (in pink) under the Persian Empire | |||||||||
| Status | Province of the Achaemenid Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Jerusalem 31°47′N 35°13′E / 31.783°N 35.217°E | ||||||||
| Common languages | Aramaic, Hebrew, Old Persian | ||||||||
| Religion | Second Temple Judaism | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| c. 539 BCE | |||||||||
| c. 332 BCE | |||||||||
| Currency | Daric, siglos | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Israel Palestine | ||||||||
Yehud Medinata (Aramaic for the State of Judah), or simply Yehud, was part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. It was within the satrapy of Eber-Nari.
It was roughly like the older kingdom of Judah but had less land. The area of Yehud Medinata is roughly the same as the previous Babylonian province of Yehud, which was created after the kingdom of Judah was invaded by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (c. 597).
Yehud Medinata continued to exist for two centuries, until Alexander the Great conquered it and made it part of his empire.
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