Iturea
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thumb|300px|Map of Roman Judea in the first century; according to Claude Reignier Conder|Conder (1889) Iturea or Ituraea (, Itouraía) is the Greek name of a Levantine region north of Galilee during the Late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. It extended from Mount Lebanon across the plain of Marsyas to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Syria, with its centre in Chalcis ad Libanum.
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8 sectionsContents
- Itureans
- Etymology
- History
- Second century BCE
- First century BCE
- First century CE
- References
- Notes
thumb|300px|Map of Roman Judea in the first century; according to Claude Reignier Conder|Conder (1889) Iturea or Ituraea (, Itouraía) is the Greek name of a Levantine region north of Galilee during the Late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. It extended from Mount Lebanon across the plain of Marsyas to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Syria, with its centre in Chalcis ad Libanum.
==Itureans== The Itureans (Greek: ) were a Semitic-speaking semi-nomadic tribe who lived in present-day Syria and Lebanon, who became sedentary during the Hellenistic period. The exact origin of the Itureans is disputed. Some scholars identify them as Arabs, while others believe that they were an Aramaean people, possibly the descendants of the kingdom of Sobah.