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Beit She'an בית שאן

Places

City at the junction of the Jordan and Jezreel valleys. Its Roman and Byzantine ruins, called Scythopolis, include a theater and bathhouses. It was a city of the Decapolis.

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Sources

  • The book Israel NOWlej by Richard J. Koret, glossary, page 178.