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The result was: promoted by Kimikeltalk 03:30, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
... that a festival commemorating the victory over the Jews in the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE was still being celebrated 80 years later in the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus?
Source: Pucci Ben Zeev, Miriam (2006). "The Uprisings in the Jewish Diaspora, 116–117". In Katz, Steven T. (ed.). The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. The Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol. 4th. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77248-8. pp. 96–98. "At Oxyrhynchus, the victory over the Jews was commemorated by a festival that was still observed some eighty years later."
ALT1: ... that Trajan's suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica, Cyprus, and much of Egypt? Source: Kerkeslager, Allen (2006). "The Jews in Egypt and Cyrenaica, 66–c. 235 CE". In Katz, Steven T. (ed.). The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. The Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol. 4th. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77248-8. pp. 61–62. "Trajan was compelled to divert troops under Q. Marcius Turbo from the Parthian front to suppress the uprising. [...] he appears to have charged Turbo with the extermination of all Jews in the affected areas. [...] The campaign of ethnic cleansing appears to have been a devastating success. A gap in the extant evidence for Jews in Cyrenaica confirms that the area was essentially emptied of Jews by their migration into Egypt and the subsequent Gentile massacres of stragglers. Few if any Jews survived anywhere in Cyprus. Papyri and inscriptions testify to the annihilation of entire Jewish communities in many parts of Egypt. Only in remote areas on the fringes of Roman control could any Jews have remained alive in the affected regions."
Comment: The previous nomination was declined two months ago due to missing QPQ. I’m resubmitting now after the article achieved good article status on October 3.
Improved to Good Article status by Mariamnei (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.
Overall: Excellent article. Both hooks approved; would personally replace the mention of Trajan in ALT1 with a simple "the" to make sure no attention is distracted from the bold link, but that's up to the promoter. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Excellent article. Both hooks approved; would personally replace the mention of Trajan in ALT1 with a simple "the" to make sure no attention is distracted from the bold link, but that's up to the promoter. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)