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| | Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | After Solomon's death (930 BCE), open insurrection led to the breaking away of the ten northern tribes and division of the country into a northern kingdom, Israel, and a southern kingdom, Judah, on the territory of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. |
 | | Following further Hasmonean victories (147 BCE), the Seleucids restored autonomy to Judea, as the Land of Israel was now called, and, with the collapse of the Seleucid kingdom (129 BCE), Jewish independence was again achieved. |
 | | In 37 BCE Herod, a son-in-law of Hyrcanus II, was appointed King of Judea by the Romans. |
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