Simon bar Kokhba
Jewish leader · Activists · Lived 50 to 135 · aged 85
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Something wrong?He crowned himself prince of a three-year Jewish state carved from the Roman Empire by force, and some rabbis of his time thought he was the Messiah. The revolt he launched in 132 CE ended with his death at Betar and a crackdown that finished what remained of Judean independence.
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Simon bar Kokhba was a Jewish military leader in Judea who in 132 CE initiated a rebellion against the Roman Empire. Against the odds, he and his rebels managed to establish and maintain an independent Jewish state for roughly three years. Bar Kokhba led the state as nasi - prince - and certain rabbinic scholars believed him to be the long-expected Messiah. In 135, Roman troops killed him in the fortified town of Betar. The remaining Judean rebels were killed or enslaved within a year, and Emperor Hadrian's harsh crackdown followed their defeat.
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