They didn't. In antiquity the land occupied by Jews under Roman rule was named Judaea. After they were pushed out of the territory it was renamed Palestine. It did not become Israel until the founding of the modern nation in the 20th century.
There was no Israel in the Roman world. The area that is present day Israel was called Iudaea or Judaea by the Romans. It literally means "the country of the Jews".
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Judah is the ancient name of the southern Hebrew kingdom. The Romans gave the name Judaea to Judah. Judaea is usually written simply as Judea today.
They renames it: Judaea
The Province of Judea.
Judaea is the region of Israel which was origionally occupied by the tribe of Judah. The original land grant can be found in Joshua.
They named him Jupiter. Isn't that funny?
The religion of the Roman province of Judaea (that is how the Romans spelt it) was Judaism, the religion of theJews.
In 135 the emperor Hadrian joined Judaea (the Latin for Judah) and Galilee and merged them with the Roman province of Syria. The two areas were renamed Syria Palaestina. Paleastina meant land of the Philistines. He did so because after a rebellion against his anti-Jewish policies, he persecuted the Jews and wanted to root out Judaism. He banned the Torah, executed ten rabbis and had the sacred scrolls burnt. He changed the name of Judah because he wanted erase the memory of Judah, a practice the Romans called damnatio memoriae. The Jews were also banned from entering Jerusalem, which he had renamed Aelia Capitolina. Aelia was the name of Hadrian's clan and Capitolina referred to the fact that he had dedicated the new Jerusalem (which he had rebuilt after it had been destroyed during the First Roman-Jewish War, 66-73) to the Roman god Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Romans annexed the kingdom of Judaea (Judea). Before the annexation, it had already been turned into a client (puppet) state of Rome.
Samaria was directly to the north of Judaea. Samaria was the former kingdom of Israel.
The Romans imposed that name upon it.