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    Greco-Roman cities counted as part of the Decapolis. Except for Scythopolis, Damascus and Canatha, the Decapolis cities were by and large founded during...
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  • Look up Decapolis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Decapolis was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea...
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    Abila, distinguished as Abila in the Decapolis (Greek: Ἄβιλα Δεκαπόλεως, Abila Dekapoleos), and also known for a time as Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια, Seleúkeia)...
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    Healing the deaf mute of Decapolis is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, namely Mark 7:31-37. Its narration offers many parallels with the healing...
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  • (2 Samuel 17–19). The Decapolis is named from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny the Elder (23–79). What Pliny calls Decapolis, Ptolemy (c. 100–c. 170)...
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    The Isaurian Decapolis was a group of ten cities (Greek: Δεκάπολις) in ancient and medieval Isauria. According to the De Thematibus of the 10th-century...
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  • Decapolis is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Virginia, United States. "Feature Detail Report for: Decapolis (Madison County, Virginia)"...
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    Pella, Jordan (category Decapolis)
    like-minded towns in the region a political and cultural league known as the "Decapolis",[dubious – discuss] an alliance that grew in stature and economic importance...
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    early Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River. The flight to Pella probably did not include...
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    travel with Jesus, but he is refused and instructed to remain in the Decapolis region, to tell of "the great things the Lord has done ... and [how he]...
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    Hippos (Golan Heights) (category Decapolis)
    in the Decapolis to a Declining Town", Qadmoniot 151, Jerusalem 2016, p. 2-17 (Hebrew). Eisenberg, Michael (editor). Hippos of the Decapolis and its...
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    Umm Qais (category Decapolis)
    Gadara was rebuilt and became a member of the semi-autonomous Roman Decapolis. 33 years later Augustus attached it to the Jewish kingdom of his ally...
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    Saint Gregory of Dekapolis or Gregory Dekapolites (Greek: Όσιος Γρηγόριος ο Δεκαπολίτης; before 797 – 20 November 842 or earlier) was a 9th-century Byzantine...
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    Gadara (category Decapolis)
    Hellenistic city in what is now Jordan, for a long time member of the Decapolis city league, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see...
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    initially include Galilee, Gaulanitis (today's Golan), nor Peraea or the Decapolis. Its revenue was of little importance to the Roman treasury, but it controlled...
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    cities in Palestine and southern Syria, a level of autonomy by forming the Decapolis, a ten-city league. Jerash is one of the best preserved Roman cities in...
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    Map of the Decapolis...
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    of Al-Maghtas, officially known as Qasr el-Yahud. Decapolis: The healing the deaf mute of Decapolis takes place in this area. Gerasa (also Gergesa or...
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    mythological battle between Zeus and the giant Typhon. Cities of the ancient decapolis included: Satala in Lydia Maionia in Lydia Tabala in Lydia Bagis Silandos...
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    Roman rule, Philadelphia was one of the ten Greco-Roman cities of the Decapolis. The Rashidun Caliphate conquered the city from the Byzantines in the...
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    Jerusalem Jesus' forty days in the desert Jesus in Samaria/Judea Jesus in the Decapolis Jesus receives the Holy Spirit Jesus preaches with power (the power of...
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    situated on the western side of the Jordan River, and southwest of the Decapolis. Perea was part of the kingdom of Herod the Great and his descendants...
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  • shield Dathan, belonging to law David, beloved Debir, speaker Deborah, bee Decapolis Dedan, low, their friendship Dedanim Dekar, lance bearer, perforation...
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    Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish–Roman wars in Pella in the Decapolis.[citation needed] The line of Jewish bishops in Jerusalem, which is claimed...
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    Jerash (category Decapolis)
    Jewish rule of Gerasa came to an end. Pompey attached the city to the Decapolis, a league of Hellenistic cities that enjoyed considerable autonomy under...
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  • from Abila in the Decapolis. He is the father of Telemachus. Telemachus (Kace Winfield) Telemachus is a boy from Abila in the Decapolis. He is the son of...
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    Centurion's servant Cleansing a leper Cleansing ten lepers Deaf mute of Decapolis Dropsy Gennesaret healings Hunched woman Man blind from birth Mother of...
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  • According to Eusebius, Jerusalem Christians escaped to Pella, in the Decapolis (Transjordan), at the beginning of the First Jewish–Roman War in AD 66...
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    to the Euphrates itself. The Decapolis was so called from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny. What Pliny calls Decapolis, Ptolemy makes his Cœle-Syria;...
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    Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis, Longman, 1821 mentions Lebrun's visit in 1675,(coinciding with the date...
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