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Décapole (Dekapolis atau Jerman: Zehnstädtebund) adalah sebuah persekutuan yang dibentuk pada tahun 1354 oleh sepuluh kota kekaisaran di wilayah Alsace di Kekaisaran Romawi Suci dengan tujuan untuk mempertahanka nhak mereka. Persekutuan ini dibubarkan pada tahun 1679.
The Décapole ( Dekapolis or German: Zehnstädtebund) was an alliance formed in 1354 by ten Imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Alsace region to maintain their rights. It was disbanded in 1679. In 1354 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg ratified the treaty uniting the towns of Haguenau, Colmar, Wissembourg, Turckheim, Obernai ...
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The names of the traditional ten cities of the Decapolis come from Pliny's Natural History.They are: Damascus was further north than the others and so is sometimes thought to have been an "honorary" member. Josephus stated that Scythopolis was the largest of the ten towns. Biblical commentator Edward Plumptre suggested that this is the reason why D...
Hellenistic period
Except for Scythopolis, Damascus and Canatha, the Decapolis cities were by and large founded during the Hellenistic period, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the Roman conquest of Coele-Syria, including Judea in 63 BC. Some were established under the Ptolemaic dynasty which ruled Judea until 198 BC. Others were founded later, when the Seleucid Empire ruled the region. Some of the cities included "Antiochia" or "Seleucia" in their official names (Antiochia Hippos, for exam...
Autonomy under Rome
Under Roman rule, the cities of the Decapolis were not included in the territory of the Herodian kingdom, its successor states of the Herodian tetrarchy, or the Roman province of Judea. Instead, the cities were allowed considerable political autonomy under Roman protection. Each city functioned as a polis or city-state, with jurisdiction over an area of the surrounding countryside. Each minted its own coins. Many coins from Decapolis cities identify their city as "autonomous," "free," "sovere...
Direct Roman rule
The Decapolis came under direct Roman rule in AD 106, when Arabia Petraea was annexed during the reign of the emperor Trajan. The cities were divided between the new province and the provinces of Syria and Judea. In the later Roman Empire, they were divided between Arabia and Palaestina Secunda, of which Scythopolis served as the provincial capital; while Damascus became part of Phoenice Libanensis. The cities continued to be distinct from their neighbors within their provinces, distinguished...
Jerash (Gerasa) and Bet She'an (Scythopolis) survive as towns today, after periods of abandonment or serious decline. Damascus has never lost its prominent role throughout later history. Philadelphia was long abandoned, but was revived in the 19th century and has become the capital city of Jordan under the name Amman. Twentieth-century archaeology ...
The Decapolis was a region where two cultures interacted: the culture of the Greek colonists and the indigenous Jewish and Aramean cultures. There was some conflict. The Greek inhabitants were shocked by the Jewish practice of circumcision, which was regarded as a cruel and barbaric genital mutilation. Various elements of Jewish dissent towards the...
The Decapolis on BibArch Archived 5 February 2005 at the Wayback MachineDécapole (Proche-Orient) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Décapole . La Décapole, du grec deka ( dix) et polis ( cité ), désigne, dans l' Antiquité, dix villes principalement situées à l'est du Jourdain, qui se regroupèrent en une ligue. Probablement fondées par des colons grecs et macédoniens sous le roi séleucide Antiochos III ...
La Décapole (en allemand : Zehnstädtebund 1, Dekapolis 2, Vereinstädte 3 ou gemeine Reichsstädte 4, en alsacien : gemeine Richstette 1, 5 ou Richstette gemeilich im Elsass 6, en latin : civitates imperiales Alsatiae 7) est une alliance formée en 1354 entre dix villes impériales du Saint-Empire romain, à savoir des cités-États relevant ...
The Décapole was an alliance formed in 1354 by ten Imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Alsace region to maintain their rights. It was disbanded in 1679.
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The Décapole (Dekapolis or German: Zehnstädtebund) was an alliance formed in 1354 by ten Imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Alsace region to maintain their rights. It was disbanded in 1679. The affiliation at first discontinued after Charles' death in 1378, it was, however, re-established in the next year. The ten cities joined the Upper Rhenish Circle in 1500. In 1515, Mulhouse ...
