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Near as I can tell, using Ptolemy's INDEX (the text of his geography no longer exists) written around 150 AC the ROMANS, call the whole region SYRIA.
The Romans called the land of the Jews, Judah, "Judaea," ancestral Jewish land from which "Jew" is derived
After conquering Judaea, the Romans minted Judaea Capta coins [not Palestina capta] to commemorate the event British Museum - Bronze coin of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaea
Judaea Capta coinage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Persians, who preceded both the Greeks and Romans, referred to the ancestral Jewish land of Judah as Yehud, Aramaic for Judah.