The first one was with tour guide Alaa Akash, who took the Crown Prince on a tour of Umm Qais, which was known as Gadara, of the Roman
Decapolis cities.
The Nabateans, who developed the stunning Acropolis of Petra, became a client state of Rome, which expanded its influence in Jordan by building the
Decapolis of ten cities.
Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the
Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him.
Coming down from the north-west outside Galilee, Jesus and His group crossed over to the eastern side of the Jordan River into the region of the Hellenistic league of 10 cities, the
Decapolis. It was a purely pagan territory, and what Jesus did in opening a deaf man's ears and also His lips tells us today vital truths about evangelization (Mark 7:31-37).
He pointed out that Tal al-Ashari dates back to the third millennium BC, and is no less important than the cities of Mary and Ebla as it is one of the cities of
Decapolis, established by the Roman Emperor Pompey in 64 BC, which included ten important cities.
The
Decapolis were cities of political, commercial, and military importance for the Roman Empire, which today stand as monuments of a distant past
Archaeologists discuss the findings from excavations in the famous
Decapolis city of Gadara in northwestern Jordan in 1976-80, 1992, and 1997.
Interval International, an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq:IILG), on Friday disclosed the affiliation of Mega Vacations Club in Panama, which includes over 1,500 units housed in the Hard Rock Hotel Panama Megapolis and the Radisson
Decapolis Hotel, both in the exclusive Punta Paitilla area of Panama City.
"National Grammar day highlights the need of internet users to proactively protect published language online," says Earnest
Decapolis.
The Gospels narrate Jesus' theological engagement with, for example, the "Samaritan Woman at the Well" (Jn 4), the "Syro-Phoenician woman" (Mk 7:24-30), and the Gentile cities of the
Decapolis, but overall Jesus' prophetic message was aimed at the "lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Mt 15:24 NRSV, used throughout).
While in the hotel at Tiberius on the shore of Lake Galilee, preparing for our visit the next day to the site of the Sermon on the Mount, I turned back in my Bible to the verses immediately preceding the beginning of the sermon in Matthew 5.1 read, "Large crowds from Galilee, the
Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him." As I looked out over the lake the whole geography of the verse was clear; the people had come from "there, over there and down there." One of my fellow travellers said on the pilgrimage that in the future he would read his Bible in 3D and in colour rather than in 2D and in black and white.