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Why did the Crusaders name their new territory the "Kingdom of Jerusalem", when the city itself had no precedent for denoting the larger area? Why was it not named after the Roman province of Palestine or the biblical Kingdom of Israel?

by /u/Oedium in /r/AskHistorians

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