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Israel. Jordan. Syria. The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις, Dekápolis, 'Ten Cities') was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. They formed a group because of their language, culture, religion, location, and political status, with each ...
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Sélestat. Turckheim. Wissembourg. 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.
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Decapolis, league of 10 ancient Greek cities in eastern Palestine that was formed after the Roman conquest of Palestine in 63 bce, when Pompey the Great reorganized the Middle East to Rome’s advantage and to his own. The name Decapolis also denotes the roughly contiguous territory formed by these.
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Oct 26, 2020 · The Decapolis (“ten cities”) was a group of Greco-Roman cities in the southern Levant, in today’s Jordan, Syria, and Israel (Bietenhard 1977; Isaac 1981; Hoffmann and Kerner 2002; Lichtenberger 2003 ). Several cities are attributed to the Decapolis, among them Damascus, Canatha, Dion, Adraa, Gadara, Hippos, Abila, Capitolias, Gerasa ...
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The Battle of Carrhae ( Latin pronunciation: [ˈkarrae̯]) was fought in 53 BC between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae (present-day Harran, Turkey ). An invading force of seven legions of Roman heavy infantry under Marcus Licinius Crassus was lured into the desert and decisively defeated by a mixed ...
1354 - The Decapole. Colmar was one of the ten cities comprising the famous league of the Décapole, and which still proudly claim their membership, even today. Popular imagination would have the Décapole representing a time when cities preferred to act together rather than tear each other apart.
