Daroma

Daroma (Aramaic) or Darom (Hebrew), both meaning 'South', was the name of the southern Hebron Hills in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. The term is used in Eusebius's Onomasticon (4th century) and in rabbinic literature. For Eusebius, it is the southern part of the territory of Eleutheropolis (Beth Guvrin), an important city in that period. By the late tenth century, the Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi ('the Jerusalemite') was still referring to part of the region of Beth Guvrin by this name.