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Palestine was in the same place as it is now, on the east coast of the Mediterranean, south of present day Lebanon (it was called Phoenicia back then) and Syria, and west of present day Jordan (it was called Nabataea back then). It was the Roman province of Judaea (this was the Latin spelling).

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