Kanatha

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Remains of a Roman cistern

Kanatha (also Canatha ) was one of the cities of the Decapolis , a loose association of Greco-Roman cities in ancient Palestine . It was located on the site of today's village of El-Qanawat in Syria , northeast of Bostra .

The ruins extend over 1.5 km × 750 m. These include the remains of a Roman bridge, a Roman theater carved out of the rock, a nymphaeum , a cryptoporticus of an aqueduct as well as a prostylus temple and a peripteros temple.

The city is first mentioned by Josephus (Jüd. Krieg I, 19,2; Jüd. Alt. XV, 5,1). Pliny and Ptolemy count them among the cities of the Decapolis. It is also mentioned by Eusebius of Caesarea and Stephanos of Byzantium and was a bishopric ( Suffragan of Bostra ). Today Canatha is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Roman Empire , the auxiliary unit Cohors I Flavia Canathenorum was recruited from the city of Canatha and its surroundings.

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Coordinates: 32 ° 45 '  N , 36 ° 37'  E