Kanatha
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.
literature
- Georges E. Sioui et al. a .: Histoires de Kanatha. Vue et contées; essais et discours, 1991-2008 . Presses de Université, Ottawa 2008, ISBN 978-2-7603-0682-0
- Ross Burns: The Monuments of Syria . IB Tauris, London 2009, ISBN 0857714899 . S. 246 -249
- Bernhard Moritz : Kanatha 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1856.
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Coordinates: 32 ° 45 ' N , 36 ° 37' E