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Bar Kokhba's revolt and short-lived independent kingdom is put down by far mightier force than the Romans had ever used in Judea before. The victorious Romans then ban the Jewish people from the district around Jerusalem and even rename the city Aelia, and the entire province Palestine, in an attempt to destroy its Jewish identity.
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