- upon the
death of
herod the
great in 4 bce, she was
given a
toparchy including the
cities of
jabneh ,
ashdod ,
phasaelis , and 5000
- and ends at the
acrabbene toparchy, and is
entirely of the same
nature with judea; for both
countries are made up of
hills and valleys,
- but as for the
acrabbene toparchy, simon, the son of gioras, got a
great number of
those that were fond of
innovations together, and
- pausiris, son of ptolemaeus,
whose mother is heraclea,
daughter of epimachus, an
inhabitant of the
village of psôbthis in the
lower toparchy.
- the
document is a
lease of 9
arourae of land, near the
village of
sestoplelo in the
middle toparchy. the land was
owned by
aurelia - when rome took over the land it
became a toparchy, and was
burnt by
order of
varus after the
death of
herod in 4 bc .
during the
first - in the time of
jesus ,
iudaea of the
romans was
divided into
three toparchies, judea, samaria, and galilee.
samaria occupied the
centre of
- in the 25th year of his reign, he
partitioned the
kingdom into toparchies, tetrarchies, and governments, and
brought colonies from
diverse -
phasaelis it was
mentioned by
roman historian josephus as
being south of
archelais and was part of a
toparchy reigned by herod's
sister salome i .
-
during the
hasmonean period,
emmaus became a
regional administrative centre (toparchy) in the
ayalon valley josephus flavius mentions 
