Golan

Coordinates: 32°56′52″N 35°39′40″E / 32.9479°N 35.6612°E / 32.9479; 35.6612
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This article is about the ancient city and its immediate surroundings. For the geographical region, see Golan Heights. For other uses, see Golan (disambiguation).

Golan (

Byzantine ruins were found.[2] Israeli historical geographer, Zev Vilnay, tentatively identified the town Golan with the Goblana (Gaulan) of the Talmud[3] which he thought to be the ruin ej-Jelêbîne on the Wâdy Dabûra, near the Lake of Huleh, by way of a corruption of the site's original name.[4]

According to Vilnay, the village took its name from the district

Daughters of Jacob Bridge. The traces of the town were described by G. Schumacher in the late 19th-century as being "a desert ruin," having "no visible remains of importance, but [having] the appearance of great antiquity."[5]

In the Grecised form Gaulanitis (

Judaea and Phoenice.[6]

Hebrew Bible

The area is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the territory of

Amorites
.

Persian period

During the

satrapy of Karnaim.[1]

Hellenistic and Early Roman periods

Now named Gaulanitis, the area formed a district all by itself during the early Hellenistic period.

Nabatean kings Obodas I and Aretas III between ca. 93–80 BCE, leading to the conquest of the Golan by Jannaeus.[7]

In 63 BCE the entire former Seleucid realm was conquered by

Agrippa II at the end of the first century CE.[1][7]

The city of Golan was known to

Nabateans. It formed the eastern boundary of Galilee and was part of the tetrarchy of Philip. It was described by Eusebius in his Onomasticon
as a large village that gave its name to the surrounding country.

Late Roman and Byzantine periods

The region was prosperous between the 2nd and the 7th century CE when pagan communities were step by step replaced by Christian ones.[6] A different view is that the Christians of the Golan were Ghassanids, an Arab tribe originally from Yemen, used by the Byzantines as frontier guards since the end of the 5th century.[1] An important Jewish presence was attested by archaeology since the Roman period in the Golan, and by the 6th century the population of the Byzantine Golan was made up by Jews and Christian Ghassanids.[1]

The Golan was prosperous during the Roman and Byzantine periods, but had a purely rural character and lacked any larger towns.[1]

References

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    ISBN 1-931112-39-8
    .
  3. Avodah Zarah chapter 2; Megillah
    , chapter 3)
  4. JSTOR 1452901
    .
  5. OCLC 1142389290
    .
  6. ^ a b The history and antiquities of al-Golan - International Conference, Al-Bassel Center for Archaeological Research and Training, 2007-2008.
  7. ^
    ISBN 965-7034-12-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
    )

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