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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ruled by Hyrcanus, while its northern section was incorporated into the Decapolis, a league of semi-autonomous cities (see map). Both Judea and the League...
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Historic synagogues (section Albania)
dating from Late Antiquity have been found beneath a church within the Decapolis. In Lebanon, the Sidon Synagogue was built in 833 AD, on an older synagogue...
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Herod's Temple in 70 by Titus, Christians led by Simeon fled to Pella in Decapolis (Jordan), where they remained until 135. The Jews of Judea again revolted...
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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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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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Dáfnes 'ðafnes Daphnae Δεκάπολις Dekápolis Δεκάπολη Dekápoli ðeˈkapoli Decapolis Δεκέλεια Dekéleia Δεκέλεια Dekéleia ðeˈcelia Decelea; Dhekelia Δελφοί...
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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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River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Clarke, Edward Daniel (1824). Travels...
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Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish–Roman wars in Pella in the Decapolis. This revolt ended in 135 when Bar Kochba and his army were defeated....
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Rabbath Ammon by the Ammonites and Philadelphia when it was one of the Decapolis's ten cities during Roman rule, Amman, with its fine Roman ruins including...
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Vol. 1. London: R. Bentley. Schumacher, Gottlieb (1889). Abila of the Decapolis. Society's office. Schölch, Alexander (1984). "The Decline of Local Power...
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