…Philadelphia, which lies the farthest south. All…
63 BCE
…Philadelphia, which lies the farthest south.
All of these cities, except for Scythopolis, are located east of the Jordan River, extending from Damascus in the north to Philadelphia in the south.
Except for Damascus, all the other cities lie immediately to the east of Galilee, Samaria, or Judaea. (Whether the Decapolis geographically belonged to Syria, to Coele Syria—Hollow Syria, i.e., the southernmost region of Syria, which may include Palestine and is sometimes mistakenly limited to the modern al-Biq' valley)—or to Arabia, often identified as the land east of the Jordan River, is not clear, especially in the ancient geographers.)
The league is subject to the Roman governor of Syria, though his authority is tenuous in eastern Palestine.
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