-B-. 1  Balance The difference between exports and imports. 2  Balance of Payments (BOP) Goods on a Census basis are adjusted by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to goods on a BOP basis to bring the data in line with the concepts and definitions used to prepare the international and national accounts.
Judea or JudÃ¦a (/dÊuËËdiË.É/; from Hebrew: ×××××ââ, Standard YÉhuda, Tiberian YÉhÃ»á¸Äh, Greek: á¼°Î¿ÏÎ´Î±Î¯Î±, IoudaÃ­a; Latin: IÅ«daea, Arabic: ÙÙÙØ¯Ø§ââ, Yahudia) is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of Canaan-Israel.
Judah was a small inland nation, more or less to the west of the Dead Sea. To the north was the Kingdom of Israel, which became the Assyrian province of Samaria in 722 BCE. To the south was the Negev desert, inhospitable until the Nabataeans learnt to survive there. And to the west was the land of the Philistines.