Banias

Banias (; ; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: , etc.; ), also spelled Banyas, is a site in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. It is located at the foot of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights, the classical Gaulanitis, in the part occupied by Israel. The spring is the source of the Banias River, one of the main tributaries of the Jordan River. Archaeologists uncovered a shrine ded

battle between Seleucid and Ptolemaic forces as part of the Fifth Syrian War

four-way division of Herod the Great's Levantine kingdom upon his death

Gospel according to Mark, chapter 8

Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 16

an episode in the New Testament in which the Apostle Peter proclaims Jesus to be the Christ

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