Iuaea (Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yehuda Tiberian Yehûḏāh; Greek: Ιουδαία; Latin: Iudaea) was a Roman province that extended over the region of Judea proper, later renamed Palestine. It was named in reference to the ancient Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE, which had subsequently been conquered by Babylonia, the Persian Empire, and contested by the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires in the six Syrian Wars of the 2nd century BCE. The majority of the population, and the local rulers, remained Jewish until after the Bar Kokhba's revolt.