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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - NOBAH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the inhabitants of Canatha are called, on the coins of Commodus, Γαβεινιεῖς ΚαναθηνοΊ, it may be concluded that the city was restored by Gabinius.
		According to inscriptions found in the neighborhood of Canatha, the town belonged to Herod and to Agrippa II., which shows that it was at one time under the control of the Herodians.
		Canatha is identified with the modern Ḳanawat, on the western slope of Jabal Ḥauran and on the Roman road to Damascus.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=323&letter=N (266 words)

	Canatha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Map of the Decapolis showing the location of Canatha
		Canatha (also Kanatha) was a city of the Decapolis in Roman Palestine.
		Canatha is to-day El-Qanawat; this village, north-east of Bostra, in the country of Syria, stands at a height of about 4100 feet, near a river and surrounded by woods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canatha (199 words)

	Orient > Arabia Petra > Trachonitis Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By the late first century AD the territory under their control was contiguous with that of the Herodian dynasty in two regions: in the south across the Wadi 'Araba west of Petra, and in the north, in the regions of Batanaea, Auranitis, and Trachonitis.
		IT was precisely during the reign of Herod the Great that the massive mountain-side sanctuary at Si' /Seeia (slightly southeast of Canatha) was built, and a statue of Herod himself prominently displayed.
		The extent of Nabataean influence at Si' and Canatha remains to be assessed.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/184740&authorid=89 (1969 words)

	Bernice Summerfield - A Life of Surprises
		It seems that Canatha is in fact a weapons factory that teleports embryo warriors into the wombs of the target planet’s women; the women give birth to an invincible army of genetically engineered warriors, and then succumb to a plague that wipes out the planet’s population while their children scavenge the remains.
		Benny barely escaped from Canatha’s robot guardians, and, realising that Stafford wasn’t the innocent academic he’d claimed, she stored her memories of the planet in the mnemosine diary he’d given her as payment.
		Stafford now forces her to read the diary and reveal Canatha’s secrets -- but she’d prepared for this when she first used the book, and the first thing she says activates the comms system and calls her friends for help.
	www.drwhoguide.com /bs_n07.htm (3941 words)

	Qanawat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Qanawat (Roman Canatha), village in southern Syria, Jabal al-Arab region, Swaida Governorate.
		It was an important center of Christianity in the forth and fifth centuries, and contains the ruins of a large Roman cathedral.
		Qanwat also has a religious importance for the Druze; it is the seat of their highest ranking religious leader.
	www.damascus-online.com /se/geo/qanawat.htm (53 words)

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		In the New Testament, it refers to some cities where Jesus ministered to Gentiles and demonstrated his willingness to bring his message to everyone who needed to hear his words.
		The 10 cities included Pella, Damascus, Philadelphia, Canatha, Dium, Scythopolis (Beth Shean), Hippus, Gadara, Raphana, and Gerasa.
		Defense Tower - Scholars debate the importance of the large tower that once stood in Qumran because it was essentially a religious community of seperatists who lived in a peaceful, almost monastic existence.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=2145 (766 words)

	Qanawat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		High stone walls bound each piece of land, rough enclosures from blocks of Basalt gathered round about, and amongst the blocks here and there the drum of a column, a Corinthian Capital or a finely chiseled architrave piled together at a random, some straight, some slanting, some up-turned…
		Named Qanat or Nobah the bible and Canatha in Nabatean and Roman times, ancient Qanawat was the most important city in the land.
		In the sixties B.C. it belonged to the Decapolis League of merchant cities, all situated in Trans-Jordan in Syria, of which Damascus was for a time the chief, and which survived until the end of the 2
	www.syriantours.net /Details/qanawat.htm (578 words)

	Cities of the Decapolis (AE0204) Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Decapolis, meaning ten cities in Greek, consisted of several Graeco-Roman cities in the land of northern Jordan, Syria and Palestine.
		According to Pliny (Natural History 5.74) this confederation consisted of ten cities, including Scythopolis, Hippos, Gadara, Pella, Philadelphia, Gerasa, Dion, Canatha, Raphana, and Damascus.
		Sartre: “ Les Cités de la Décapole septentrional: Canatha, Raphana, Dion et Adraha,” in ARAM 4 (1992) 139-156.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Old_World_Archaeology_and_Art/html/resources/courses/AE0204.html (812 words)

	Syria, Decapolis, Canatha, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Commodus AE 14.3 of of Canatha in the Syrian Decapolis.
		Commodus AE25 of Canatha, a Decapolis city in Syria.
		Search for Canatha in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/syria/decapolis/canatha/t.html (114 words)

	Arab, Jabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Druze, a sect derived from the Ismai'ilite branch of Shi'ite Islam, have been settled in the area of Mount ad-Duruz since the 11th century.
		There are some 120 villages located on or near the mountain, among them Salah (Roman Salamanestha), the largest on the eastern slope, and Qanawat (Roman Canatha), on the west, the seat of the highest ranking jawwad (spiritual leader) in the locality.
		Qanawat is a place of pilgrimage for the Druze.
	www.damascus-online.com /se/geo/arab_jabal.htm (120 words)

	Daily Bible Study - The Decapolis
		The Decapolis were inhabited primarily by Greek people who settled in the region after the time of Alexander the Great's conquest (see Ancient Empires - Greece), and were established as a political entity after the Romans occupied the land from about 65 B.C. (see Ancient Empires - Rome and Roman Legions and Roman Roads).
		The cities were Scythopolis, ("city of the Scythians" - ancient Bethshean, the only one of the Decapolis located to the west of the Jordan River), Hippus, Gadara, Pella (to which the Christians fled just before the destruction of Jerusalem), Philadelphia (ancient Rabbath-ammon), Gerasa, Dion, Canatha, Raphana, and Damascus.
		According to Ptolomy, their number was later increased to eighteen, although the others are not identified with certainty.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/decpolis.htm (614 words)

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		The puzzle comes from texts that name different cities as members of the Decapolis.
		In general they agree that Damascus, Hippos, Canatha, Dium and Raphana (all in modern Syria) were part of the Decapolis confederation.
		Biblical Mark identified Scythopolis, the only city to lie west of the Jordan River as the largest city and capitol of the Decapolis.
	www.gondol.com /English/jerash.htm (699 words)

	Presenting the report on conditions in Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is included on this map because it is the northern terminus of the Via Nova Triana, a vital trade and military road linking the port of Aila in the south with Damascus in the North.
		The border lies a little north of Qanawat (Canatha).
		With the exception of Damascus, all the cities on the map are cities in Provincia Arabia.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/281695 (1142 words)

	Decapolis (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Of the ten cities, Scythopolis, the ancient Bethshean, alone, the capital of the league, was on the West side of Jordan.
		The names given by Pliny (NH, v.18) are Scythopolis (Beisan), Hippos (Susiyeh), Gadara (Umm Qeis), Pella (Fahil), Philadelphia ('Amman), Gerasa (Jerash), Dion (Adun?), Canatha (Qanawat), Damascus and Raphana.
		The last named is not identified, and Dion is uncertain.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/2589 (428 words)

	Guide
		This tour is aimed primarily at persons intensively interested in Biblical Studies, especially Early Christianity, to tour the main sites of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, between approximately 4 July and 4 August 2000.
		The sites visited will include Baalbek, Byblos, Beirut, Tyre, Sidon,Damascus, Aleppo, Apamea, Palmyra, Canatha, Bostra, Jerash, Gadara, Iraq al-Emir, Petra, Aqaba, Avdat, Nessana, Mampsis, and four days in Jerusalem.
		Unusual in tours of this kind is the inclusion of a two-week introduction to scientific archaeological excavation at the site of Khirbet Cana in the Galilee, staying at Kibbutz HaSolelim, near Sepphoris.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~prchrdsn/guide.htm (444 words)

	Paul and Damascus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They created another series inland in the desert fringe area.
		In the latter area, beside Damascus, there were such city-states as Scythopolis (Beisan), Canatha (Hauran), Gadara, Pella, Gerasa (Jerash), and Philadelphia (Amman).
		These desert-fringe city-states were placed together in some sort of loose confederation known as the Decapolis (because they numbered ten in all), with Damascus as the confederation capital.
	www.christianorigins.com /pauldamascus.html (6071 words)

	Philologos \| The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah \| Book I, Chapter 7
		While, therefore, the Hellenic cities were each independent of the other, the whole Jewish territory formed only one 'Civitas.' Rule, government, tribute - in short, political life - centred in Jerusalem.
		The following cities probably formed the Decapolis, though it is difficult to feel quite sure in reference to one or the other of them: Damascus, Philadelphia, Raphana, Scythopolis, Gadara, Hippos Dion, Pella, Gerasa, and Canatha.
		From motives similar to those which led to the founding of other Hellenic cities, Herod the Great and his immediate successors built a number of towns, which were inhabited chiefly by Gentiles, and had independent constitutions, like those of the Hellenic cities.
	philologos.org /__eb-lat/book107.htm (3711 words)

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	Palestine - The Peace Encyclopedia
		The name Decapolis also denotes the roughly contiguous territory formed by these cities, all but one of which lay east of the Jordan River.
		The 10 cities of the league were Scythopolis (modern Bet She'an, Israel), Hippos, Gadara, Raphana, Dion (or Dium), Pella, Gerasa, Philadelphia (modern Amman, Jordan), Canatha, and Damascus (now the capital of Syria).
		Damascus lay the farthest north, while Philadelphia lay the farthest south.
	peace.heebz.com /palestine.html (9265 words)

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