- Look up
Peraia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peraia, and
Peraea or
Peræa (from
Ancient Gr****: ἡ περαία, hē peraia, "land across") in
classical Antiquity...
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Simon of
Peraea, also
known as
Simon son of Joseph, was a
former slave of
Herod the
Great who
rebelled and was
killed by the
Romans some time
after Herod's...
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Perea or
Peraea (Gr****: Περαία, "the
country beyond") was the term used
mainly during the
early Roman period for part of
ancient Transjordan. It lay broadly...
- was an
ancient city east of the
Jordan River in the
Plains of Moab,
later Peraea, near Livias,
about twelve km
northeast of the
north s**** of the Dead Sea...
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Peraea or
Peraia (Ancient Gr****: Περαία) was a town of
ancient Euboea. It is
attested by
epigraphic evidence that
Peraea was a deme of
Eretria in the 3rd...
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province did not
initially include Galilee,
Gaulanitis (today's Golan), nor
Peraea or the Decapolis. Its
revenue was of
little importance to the
Roman treasury...
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Bible Places Abel-****tim, Ha-****tim, or
simply ****tim,
later Abila (
Peraea), a
place that
appears in the
Bible ****im, a
village in
southern Israel...
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capital of
ancient Abilene,
northwest of present-day Damascus,
Syria Abila (
Peraea),
archaeological site in
Jordan Abila,
Latin name of Ávila,
Spain Abyla...
- 533. [Ptolemy]
describes the
Peraea by a
periphrasis as the
eastern side of
Jordan which may
imply that the name [
Peraea] was no
longer in vogue. (Image...
- Palestine. The
various Roman provinces (Syria Palaestina, Samaria, Galilee, and
Peraea) were
reorganized into
three dioceses of Palaestina,
reverting to the name...
