Palaestina Salutaris

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Palaestina Salutaris or Palaestina Tertia (sometimes also Palaestina Tertia Salutaris) was a Late Roman and Byzantine province, which covered the area of the Negev, Sinai (except the north-western coast) and south-west of Transjordan, south of the Dead Sea. The province, a part of the Diocese of the East, was created from territories formerly belonging to the provinces of Syria Palaestina (the name given after 135 to the former province of Judaea) and Arabia Petraea (the former Nabataean Kingdom): first, in c. 300 CE, the Negev, Sinai and Southern Transjordan were transferred from Arabia Petraea to Syria Palaestina during the reforms of Diocletian; and then, around 357-358, Syria Palaestina was split in two, into southern Palestine, later to become known as Palaestina Salutaris, and the remaining northern territory being named Palaestina Prima. The province of Palaestina Salutaris existed until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

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