Cyprus supplied copper to the Mediterranean countries in antiquity and gave its name to the metal. Cyprus and Eretz Yisrael had trade relations by the third century B.C.E., and Jews began to settle the island. In the first century B.C.E., the Roman emperor Augustus gave Herod, king of Judea, part of the management and revenue of the island’s copper mines. Jews were among the miners and copper workers. After Herod’s death, his granddaughter Alexandra married a Cypriot Jew. The community prospered, and synagogues existed in at least three locations: Golgoi, Lapethos and Constantia-Salamine. Some Cypriot Jews moved to Jerusalem, and the Talmud mentions imports of cumin, wine and dried figs from Cyprus. The Romans brutally suppressed a revolt by Cypriot Jews in 117 C.E. and forbade Jews to set foot on the island; nonetheless, they returned soon after. In the seventh century, a large community existed in Famagusta, and in the 12th century, the traveler Benjamin of Tudela found three Jewish sects on the island. Between the 12th and 15th centuries, more Jews lived on Cyprus than on any of the Greek islands. They suffered some discrimination, such as having to wear a yellow badge, but in the 14th century King Peter I attracted Jewish traders from Egypt by promising them equal treatment.