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205 AD (search for this): book 5, chapter 16
se., AbilaA place of great strength in Cœle-Syria, now known as Nebi Abel, situate between Heliopolis and Damascus., ArcaSituate between Tripolis and Antaradus, at the north-west foot of Mount Libanus. It lay within a short distance of the sea, and was famous for the worship paid by its inhabitants to Astarte, the Syrian Aphrodite. A temple was erected here to Alexander the Great, in which Alexander Severus, the Roman Emperor, was born, his parents having resorted thither to celebrate a festival, A.D. 205. From this circumstance, its name was changed to Cæsarea. Burckhardt fixes its site at a hill called Tel-Arka., AmpeloëssaOf this place, which probably took its name from its numerous vines, nothing whatever is known., and GabeCalled by Pliny, in B. xii. c. 41, Gabba. It was situate at the foot of Mount Carmel between Cæsarea and Ptolemais, sixteen miles from the former. No remains of it are to be seen. It must not be confounded with Gabala, in Galilee, fortified by Herod the Gre
March (search for this): book 5, chapter 16
of Arabia. It was bounded on the north by the territory of Damascus, on the east by Auranitis, on the south by Ituræa, and on the west by Gaulanitis. It was so called from its ranges of rocky mountains, or traxw=nes, the caves in which gave refuge to numerous bands of robbers., PaniasSo called from the mountain of that name. Cæsarea Philippi also bore the name of Panias. It was situate at the south of Mount Hermon, on the Jordan, just below its source. It was built by Philip the Tetrarch, B.C. 3. King Agrippa called it Neronias; but it soon lost that name., in which is Cæsarea, with the spring previously mentionedIn C. xiv. of the present Book, as that in which the Jordan takes its rise., AbilaA place of great strength in Cœle-Syria, now known as Nebi Abel, situate between Heliopolis and Damascus., ArcaSituate between Tripolis and Antaradus, at the north-west foot of Mount Libanus. It lay within a short distance of the sea, and was famous for the worship paid by its inhabitants to Ast
1125 AD (search for this): book 5, chapter 16
, as it waters a large extent of deep soil.", which is drawn off into its meadows and eagerly imbibed; PhiladelphiaThe ancient Rabbath Ammon, a city of the Ammonites. It was afterwards called Astarte, and then Philadelphia, in honour of Ptolemy Philadelphus. According to D'Anville, the present name of its site is Amman., and RhaphanaThirty-three miles from Apamea. Its ruins are probably those mentioned by Abulfeda under the name of Rafaniat. William of Tyre says, that it was taken in the year 1125 by the Count of Tripoh., all which cities fall back towards Arabia; ScythopolisPreviously called Beth-shan. It was the next city of the Decapolis in magnitude after Damascus. It was situate in the land of the tribe of Issachar, though it belonged to the Manasites. At this place the bodies of Saul and his sons were hung up by the Philistines; see 1 Sam. xxxi. 10–12. Reland suggests that it received the name of Scythopolis, not from a Scythian colony, but from the Succoth of Gen. xxxiii. 17, wh