Golan
Golan (
According to Vilnay, the village took its name from the district
In the Grecised form Gaulanitis (
Hebrew Bible
The area is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the territory of
Persian period
During the
Hellenistic and Early Roman periods
Now named Gaulanitis, the area formed a district all by itself during the early Hellenistic period.
In 63 BCE the entire former Seleucid realm was conquered by
The city of Golan was known to
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
- ^ )
- ^ ISBN 1-931112-39-8.
- Avodah Zarah chapter 2; Megillah, chapter 3)
- JSTOR 1452901.
- OCLC 1142389290.
- ^ a b The history and antiquities of al-Golan - International Conference, Al-Bassel Center for Archaeological Research and Training, 2007-2008.
- ^ )