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    Batanaea or Batanea was an area often mentioned between the first century BC until the fourth century AD. It is often mixed with the biblical Bashan as...
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    over the northeast part of his father's kingdom: Iturea, Trachonitis, Batanaea, Gaulanitis, Auranitis, and Paneas. He ruled until his death in 34 CE....
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    and Galilee, as well as several regions east of the Jordan River—Perea, Batanaea, Auranitis, and Trachonitis. The first intervention of Rome in the region...
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  • Iturea, Gaulanitis (Golan), Trachonitis (Lajat), Auranitis (Hauran), and Batanaea in the first century CE....
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  • Artaxias III, Roman client king of Armenia (b. 13 BC) Philip the Tetrarch, Jewish ruler of Batanaea Stephen, Jewish martyr of Christianity (stoned to death)...
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    Egypt, Aulus Avilius Flaccus, with Herod Agrippa, who was governor of Batanaea and Trachonitis, and was a personal friend. Flaccus had conspired against...
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    classical antiquity, in which the region was divided into four districts: Batanaea, Gaulanitis, Trachonitis and Auranitis. The Book of Numbers tells that...
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  • (born c. 20 BC, ruled 4 BC–AD 34), tetrarch of Iturea, Trachonitis, and Batanaea Herod II or Herod Philip I (c. 27 BC–33 AD), father of the Salome in Mark...
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  • extended south and southeast of Damascus as far as the borders of Galilaea, Batanaea, and Trachonitis. According to Flavius Josephus, Abilene was a separate...
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    function of tetrarch. Philip was to receive Gaulanitis (the Golan Heights), Batanaea (southern Syria), Trachonitis and Auranitis (Hauran). Because of Judea's...
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