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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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    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...
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    The Decapolis was so called from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny. What Pliny calls Decapolis, Ptolemy makes his Cœle-Syria; and the Cœle-Syria of Pliny...
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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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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    2019-08-27 at the Wayback Machine David Kennedy (20 Nov 2013). Gerasa and the Decapolis. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 111. ISBN 9781472537737. Josephus 'Ant. xiv...
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    Abila of the Decapolis. 658 – affects Syria and Palestine. Jerusalem is badly damaged according to the chronicles of Michael the Syrian and Theophanes...
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    Hellenism flourished under Roman rule in several regions, such as the Decapolis. Antiochians in the Northern Levant found themselves under Roman rule...
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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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    borders several regions from the time of Jesus - Gaulanitis and Galilee, Decapolis, Samaria, Perea and Judea. The Jordan River: John the Baptist has preached...
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    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...
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    other Hellenistic 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • and Tornadotus Hippos, Antiochia Hippos or Antiochia ad Hippum, in the Decapolis Antiochia Ptolemais, now Acre, Israel or Akko Umm Qais or Antiochia Semiramis...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Abila in the Decapolis, ancient city in the Levant Abila Lysaniou, capital of ancient Abilene, northwest of present-day Damascus, Syria Abila (Peraea)...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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    from the Mesolithic Kebaran culture has been excavated. The Greco-Roman Decapolis city of Sussita/Hippos stood on the hill overlooking the kibbutz. The...
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    Valley, the regions east of Galilee, and the western part of the former Decapolis with the seat of government at Scythopolis. Palaestina Tertia included...
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