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Palaestina Salutaris

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “byzantine”. Today it says “late roman and byzantine province”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Today part of Israel Egypt Jordan Saudi Arabia”. It now reads “Roman/Byzantine province (c.300-636)”.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Palaestina Salutaris or Palaestina Tertia was a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) province, which covered the area of the Negev (or Edom ), Sinai (except the north western coast) and south-west of Transjordan , south of the Dead Sea .1 The province, a part of the Diocese of the East , was split from Arabia Petraea during the reforms of Diocletian in c.300 CE, and existed until the Muslim Arab conquests of the 7th century.

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “byzantine”. Today it says “late roman and byzantine province”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Today part of Israel Egypt Jordan Saudi Arabia”. It now reads “Roman/Byzantine province (c.300-636)”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

byzantine

Now

late roman and byzantine province

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