Page "Kitos War" Paragraph 22

Further developments occurred in Judaea Province in the year 130, when Emperor Hadrian visited the Eastern Mediterranean and, according to Cassius Dio, made the decision to rebuild the city of Jerusalem as the pagan Roman city of Aelia Capitolina, derived from his own name.

The decision, together with Hadrian's other sanctions against the Jews, was allegedly one of the reasons for the eruption of the 132 Bar Kokhba revolt — an extremely violent uprising, which resulted in massive loss of Roman and especially Jewish lives.

The rebellion ended with the partial genocide of the Judaean population and a ban upon the Jewish faith across the Roman Empire, which was however lifted in 137, upon Hadrian's death.