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What is Trachonitis?
        TRACHONI'TIS
        (a rugged region), one of the five Roman provinces into which the district north-cast of the Jordan was divided in N.T. times. It lay to the east of Ituraea and Gaulonitis and to the south of Damascus, and included the remarkable region of the modern Lejah (see Argob) and part of the western slopes of Jebel Hauran. The emperor Augustus entrusted it to Herod the Great on the condition that he should clear it of robbers. Herod Philip succeeded to the tetrarchy. Luke 3:1. He died a.d. 33, and the emperor Caligula bestowed the province of Trachonitis upon Herod Agrippa I. Later it was part of the dominions of Herod Agrippa II., a.d. 53.


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