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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 Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις, Dekápolis, 'Ten Cities') was a group of ten Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. Most of the cities were located to the east of the Jordan Rift Valley, between Judaea, Iturea, Nabataea, and Syria. [1]
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.
English: The Decapolis (Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Palestine. The ten cities were not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status.
DECAPOLIS dĭ kăp’ ə lĭs (Δεκάπολις, G1279). The Decapolis, as its name implies (Gr. deka: “ten,” polis: “city”), was, in NT times, the area of the ten towns. In such significance the term occurs in Matthew (4:25), Mark (5:20; 7:31), Pliny (Natural History V. 16, 17) and Josephus (War III. ix. 7).
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The location of the temples and the sanctuaries, the impressive thoroughfares and the decorative buildings, all these created an attractive city panorama that gave evidence of wealth and power. The region of the Decapolis is a typical example of the attraction and charm of classical culture.
