Yehud Medinata (
Aramaic for "the province of Judah"),
Yahud Medin'ta/
Yahud Medinsa, or simply
Yehud, was an autonomous province of the Persian
Achaemenid Empire, roughly equivalent to the older
kingdom of Judah but covering a smaller area, within the
satrapy of
Eber-Nari. The area of Yehud Medinata corresponded to the previous
Babylonian province with the same name, formed after the fall of the kingdom of Judah to the
Neo-Babylonian Empire (c.597 after its conquest of the Mediterranean east coast, and again in 585/6 BCE after suppressing an unsuccessful Judean revolt). Yehud Medinata continued to exist for two centuries, until being incorporated into the Hellenistic empires, following the conquests of Alexander the Great.