Perea
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Perea or Peraea was the term used mainly during the early Roman period for part of ancient Transjordan. It lay broadly east of Judea and Samaria, which were situated on the western side of the Jordan River, and southwest of the Decapolis.
Incorporation into Seleucid Kingdom 200 BCE
Image: Palestine in the time of Jesus
Image: A history of the Jewish people during the Maccabean and Roman periods (including New Testament times) (1900) (14576629399)
Image: 1889 Palestine in the beginning of the Christian Era
Transjordan (region)
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Transjordan, the East Bank, or the Transjordanian Highlands, is the part of the Southern Levant east of the Jordan River, mostly contained in present-day Jordan.
"Reuben and Gad Ask for Land", engraving by Arthur Boyd Houghton based on Numbers 32.
"The Children of Israel Crossing the Jordan", engraving by Gustave Doré. Moshe Weinfeld argues that in the Book of Joshua, the Jordan is portrayed as "a barrier to the promised land."
Near East 1000 BCE
Countries pictured are (clockwise from top right) Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt (across the Gulf of Aqaba), Israel, the occupied West Bank Territory, and Lebanon. In the center is Jordan.