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Judea never recovered from Hadrian's ravages. Hadrian banned the Jews from approaching Aelia (the Roman colony built over the ruins of Jerusalem), on pain of death. Jerusalem had vanished. Hadrian wiped Judea off the map, deliberately renaming it Syria-Palaestina, after the Jew's ancient enemies, the Philistines.