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The details of the evolution of these principalities are not well known, except probably what concerns the various principalities that formed when Herod’s kingdom was carved up. When Herod died (4 BCE), Augustus divided the kingdom between Herod’s three sons, none of whom received the royal title: Archelaos received the ethnarchy of Judaea and Samaria; Antipas received the tetrarchy of the Galilee and Peraea beyond Jordan; and to Philip went the tetrarchy consisting of Gaulanitis, Batanea, Trachonitis, and Auranitis, i.e. a strictly South Syrian state. Starting in 6 ce, Archelaos was destitute and exiled to Vienna (Gaul) for reasons of incompetence and excessive violence. Judaea and Samaria were reattached to the province of Syria and entrusted to the administration of a knight bearing the title of prefect, residing at Caesarea. When Philip died (33–34 ce), his principality was briefly annexed to the province of Syria before being granted, along with the royal title, to his nephew Agrippa I (37 ce), who also received Abila of Lysanias, to the west of Damascus. Antipas in turn claimed the royal title, which prompted his exile in Gaul (39 ce) and the transfer of his states to Agrippa I. Claudius, in 41 ce, rebuilt for Agrippa the totality of Herod’s kingdom, but Agrippa’s premature death in 44 ce prompted the return of his entire domain to the province of Syria. Judaea and Samaria were again entrusted to a specific administrator, now a procurator, while the other sectors were administered directly from Antioch. Nevertheless, Agrippa I’s son, Agrippa II, received in 47–48 ce the principality of his uncle Herod, around Chalcis in Lebanon, and next a part of the Galilee and the whole of southern Syria that had belonged to Philip. Agrippa II kept this territory until around 92 ce, although he does not seem to have died until later, shortly before 100 ce. His main mission was to fight banditry, a task he assigned to the garrisons placed around the Trachon plateau and one that seems to have been carried out with definite success.