Decapolis
Sign in to saveThe Decapolis (Greek: ) was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Greek and late Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. Most of the cities were located to the east of the Jordan Rift Valley, between Judaea, Iturea, Nabataea, and Syria.
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- Country.conventional_long_name
- Decapolis
- Country.common_name
- Decapolis
- Country.image_map
- The-Decapolis-map.svg
- Country.map_caption
- The ten cities of Decapolis marked in black italics
- Country.empire
- Roman Empire
- Country.status
- Client state
- Country.year_start
- 63 BC
- Country.year_end
- AD 106
- Country.p1
- Coele-Syria
- Country.p2
- Hasmonean kingdom
- Country.s1
- Arabia Petraea
- Country.s2
- Syria Palaestina
- Country.common_languages
- Koine Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, Latin, Hebrew
- Country.religion
- Hellenistic religion, Imperial Cult
- Country.event_end
- Trajan's annexation of Arabia Petrea
- Country.event_start
- Pompey's conquest of Syria
- Country.today
- IsraelJordanSyria
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- Cities
- History
- Hellenistic period
- Autonomy under Rome
- Direct Roman rule
- Evolution and excavation
- Culture
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The Decapolis (Greek: ) was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Greek and late Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. Most of the cities were located to the east of the Jordan Rift Valley, between Judaea, Iturea, Nabataea, and Syria.
The Decapolis was a center of Hellenistic culture in a region which was otherwise populated by Jews, Arab Nabataeans and Arameans. The cities formed a group because of their language, culture, religion, location, and political status, with each functioning as an autonomous city-state dependent on Rome. They are sometimes described as a league of cities, although some scholars believe that they were never formally organized as a political unit.
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