Yehud or Yehud Medinta, sometimes misread as Yehud Medinata, was an autonomous province of the Achaemenid Empire. The name is originally Aramaic and was first introduced after Judah fell to the Babylonians. Located in Judea, the territory was ethnically diverse with a distinct Jewish community whose High Priest of Israel emerged as a central religious and political leader. It lasted for just over two centuries before being incorporated into the Hellenistic empires, which emerged following the Greek conquest of the Persian Empire.