Decapolis in Biblical History

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What is the Decapolis?
DECAP'OLIS
(ten cities), a region noticed three times in the Bible. Matt 4:25; Map of Decapolis. (From Schaff's "New Testament Commentary.") Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31 It lay near the Sea of Galilee probably on both sides of the Jordan. The cities were rebuilt by the Romans about b.c. 65; but as other cities grew up, writers are not agreed as to the names of the ten cities. Pliny gives them as follows: Scythopolis, Hippos, Gadara, Pella, Philadelphia, Gerasa, Dion, Canatha, Raphana, Damascus. Six are deserted, and none have many inhabitants except Damascus.

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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'decapolis' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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