Palaestina Secunda
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Palaestina Secunda or Palaestina II was a province of the Byzantine Empire from 390, until its conquest by the Muslim armies in 634–636. Palaestina Secunda, a part of the Diocese of the East, roughly
Byzantine Palestine in the 5th century
Ruins of an ancient synagogue in the late Roman town of Capernaum, Palaestina Secunda
Roman street of Scythopolis in Bet She'an National Park, Israel
Arthur Szyk. Visual History of Nations, Israel, New Canaan, CT
Decapolis
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The Decapolis 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 lo
Palaestina Secunda
…East, roughly comprised inland Galilee, the Jezreel (Yizrael) Valley, Bet Shean Valley, and the corresponding area of Transjordan (parts of the former Decapolis, with the southern territories of the Golan plateau and the bishopric of Pella south of the Yarmuk River), with its capital in Scythopolis (Bet Shean…
Roman theatre and cardo of Scythopolis (Beit She'an, Israel)
The oval forum and cardo of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)
The Decapolis at the time of Pliny the Elder and before 106 A.D