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Nazareth is a town in Galilee, variously believed to have been founded in the first century BCE or the first century CE. National borders change from time to time, but Galilee was, for the most part, outside the territory of ancient Israel, the ancient land of the Hebrew people.

Judah invaded Galilee in the second century BCE and forcibly converted the small local population to Judaism, but in the time of Jesus the larger towns appear to have been populated by gentiles. From the first century, especially after 70 CE and the end of the First Roman-Jewish War, Galilee became an important centre of Jewish population.

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