But Arab armies attacked and Jordan annexed what the world calls the West Bank and Jewish history calls Judea and Samaria.

The Southern Kingdom was called Judea and include the land south of Shilo.

The part of former Mandatory Palestine occupied by the Jordanian Army during the Israeli War of Independence, which some Israelis call "Judea and Samaria", was renamed "the West Bank".

Ever since, Mr. Begin had preached undying loyalty to what he called Judea and Samaria (the West Bank lands) and promoted Jewish settlement there.

By 50 BC, Judah (then called Judea) was ruled by the Roman Empire.

His prime responsibility is to protect 200,000 Jewish residents of towns near the border and of isolated enclaves like Beit El in the region that Israel calls Judea and Samaria.

Outbreaks of violence against the Roman occupation exploded into a civil war that finally engulfed the whole province that the Romans called Judea.

Hebron, home to a group of militant settlers who believe that they have a mandate from God to reclaim the land they call Judea and Samaria, is always a volatile place.

Likud has consistently argued that it wants to deal only with local inhabitants of what it calls Judea and Samaria (the West Bank and Gaza).

"Jew" originally meant a person from the nation of Judah (called "Judea" by the Roman Empire), which came into existence after the reign of king Solomon, when the nation of Israel was divided in two.