Greco-Roman cities counted as part of the Decapolis. Except for Scythopolis, Damascus and Canatha, the Decapolis cities were by and large founded during... 20 KB (1,923 words) - 11:53, 1 May 2024 |
Syria Palaestina (Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Syría hē Palaistínē [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]), or Roman Palestine, was a Roman province... 41 KB (5,065 words) - 08:29, 15 May 2024 |
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... 601 bytes (109 words) - 08:22, 29 October 2023 |
Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of... 21 KB (2,094 words) - 15:08, 7 April 2024 |
The Decapolis is named from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny the Elder (23–79). What Pliny calls Decapolis, Ptolemy (c. 100–c. 170) calls Cœle-Syria. Ptolemy... 30 KB (3,648 words) - 14:08, 4 May 2024 |
Dion of the Decapolis. As a small Remark is to notice that beside of the probably military fortress city of Raphana all other Decapolis Cities (also... 4 KB (525 words) - 13:07, 7 November 2023 |
Damascus (redirect from Damascus, Syria) western part of Syria. The Romans occupied Damascus and subsequently incorporated it into the league of ten cities known as the Decapolis which themselves... 126 KB (13,521 words) - 12:24, 7 May 2024 |
Umm Qais (category Decapolis) the Roman province of Syria. To supply larger populations Gadara, and the neighbouring Decapolis cities of Adraa (Dera'a, Syria) and Abila (Qweilbeh,... 18 KB (1,784 words) - 09:05, 7 May 2024 |
List of earthquakes in the Levant (redirect from List of earthquakes in Syria) Abila of the Decapolis. 658 – affects Syria and Palestine. Jerusalem is badly damaged according to the chronicles of Michael the Syrian and Theophanes... 23 KB (2,393 words) - 21:37, 24 March 2024 |
Hellenism flourished under Roman rule in several regions, such as the Decapolis. Antiochians in the Northern Levant found themselves under Roman rule... 33 KB (3,569 words) - 08:49, 12 February 2024 |
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... 26 KB (2,986 words) - 13:24, 4 April 2024 |
supplying water for some of the cities of the Decapolis. It serviced Adraha (known today as Dera'a in Syria), Abila (at Wadi Queilebh in Jordan), and Gadara... 6 KB (729 words) - 10:49, 30 March 2024 |
Gadara of the Decapolis−a Hellenistic city). Following the Roman conquest of Judea led by Pompey in 63 BCE, Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the... 22 KB (2,734 words) - 16:27, 4 May 2024 |
Judaea (Roman province) (category Roman Syria) 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... 35 KB (3,594 words) - 16:58, 10 May 2024 |
Baalbek (redirect from Heliopolis (Syria)) Nerva to Gallienus. The 1st-century Pliny did not number it among the Decapolis, the "Ten Cities" of Coelesyria, while the 2nd-century Ptolemy did. The... 117 KB (11,308 words) - 00:04, 30 April 2024 |
Ancient Macedonian calendar (redirect from Syria-Macedonian calendar) University of Michigan Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-472-11238-8. Syria, S. / Arabia – Decapolis – Gerasa (Jerash) – 6th CE Epigraphical Database [1] 531 CE... 9 KB (495 words) - 03:02, 4 April 2024 |
Antiochia (section In modern Syria) and Tornadotus Hippos, Antiochia Hippos or Antiochia ad Hippum, in the Decapolis Antiochia Ptolemais, now Acre, Israel or Akko Umm Qais or Antiochia Semiramis... 3 KB (434 words) - 14:32, 14 May 2024 |
the Nazoraeans exists in Beroea in the neighbourhood of Coele Syria and the Decapolis in the region of Pella and in Basanitis in the so-called Kokaba... 5 KB (704 words) - 16:35, 28 April 2024 |
Gad, was, in New Testament times, part of the Greek region known as the Decapolis, it was (Schonfield theorized) known as Rama-Gad-Yavan (Yavan meaning... 5 KB (688 words) - 22:49, 23 January 2024 |
Decapolis and Coele-Syria. Josephus (Antiquities 13.355-356, 392; 14.79, 16.275; and War 1.103-104, 155), Philo and Ptolemy tend to use Coele-Syria for... 313 KB (37,822 words) - 21:32, 4 May 2024 |
Abila in the Decapolis, ancient city in the Levant Abila Lysaniou, capital of ancient Abilene, northwest of present-day Damascus, Syria Abila (Peraea)... 664 bytes (102 words) - 00:44, 2 October 2022 |
Cardo (section Apamea, Syria) of a group of 10 Hellenistic cities known as Decapolis on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea. It was a self-governed city established... 12 KB (1,650 words) - 20:33, 26 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,934 words) - 09:12, 7 May 2024 |
Abilene (ancient) (category Decapolis) of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. Abila (Decapolis), a similarly named Classical city Wikisource has the text of the 1911... 4 KB (578 words) - 09:36, 29 December 2023 |
from the Mesolithic Kebaran culture has been excavated. The Greco-Roman Decapolis city of Sussita/Hippos stood on the hill overlooking the kibbutz. The... 6 KB (521 words) - 23:10, 5 February 2024 |