> There was a rather documented political context back then, of erasing the local name to crush the local population. I don't know of any emperor who renamed p

> There was a rather documented political context back then, of erasing the local name to crush the local population. I don't know of any emperor who renamed provinces as retribution. Do you have any examples? > I do find it odd the Romans used two names when switching 'Judea' to 'Syria-Palestine'. Syria was a greater region back then and contained many provinces. See the Wikipedia map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coele_Syria_(Roman_province)#/media/File:Roman_Empire_with_provinces_in_210_AD.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coele_Syria_(Roman_province)#/...