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The Decapolis (Greek: "Ten Cities") was a region including 10 originally independent Greek city states, all of which lay east of the Jordan river except for Scythopolis [ancient Beth Shean ]. Each city was the center of its own administrative district. Several were brought under Judean control by Aristobulus I and Alexander Jannai but were ...
This particular league seems to have been constituted about the time of Pompey's campaign in Syria, 65 B.C., by which several cities in Decapolis dated their eras. They were independent of the local tetrarchy, and answerable directly to the governor of Syria. They enjoyed the rights of association and asylum; they struck their own coinage, paid ...
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DECAPOLIS. de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" ( Matthew 4:25 Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31 ), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Peraea, round Hippos, Pella and Gadara." Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in the East, to promote their common ...
The number of cities belonging to the Decapolis varied. One list of cities of the Decapolis is provided by Pliny (NH 5.16.74). The Decapolis first is mentioned in the New Testament (Mk 5:20; Mk 7:31; Mt 4:25). In the Hellenistic period, the cities were supported by Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers and received civic status.
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length, and even names several of the Decapolis cities: Damascus, Gadara, Phila-delphia, and Scythopolis.9 This silence is even more curious when we recall Strabo's interest in the Lycian League, a federation of 23 cities in western Asia Minor organized and supervised by the Romans.10 6 The Holy Land, 81. 6Natural History 5.74 (LCL translation).
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). Its original meaning may have been political rather than geographical ...
Nave's Topical Index. Mark 5:20. And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel. Nave's Topical Index. Mark 7:31. And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the coasts of Decapolis. Nave's Topical Index.
