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BANIAS - Banias (Arabic: ; Hebrew: ) is the Arabic and modern Hebrew name of an ancient site that developed around a spring once associated with the Greek go...
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Banias (Arabic: ; Hebrew: ) is the Arabic and modern Hebrew name of an ancient site that developed around a spring once associated with the Greek god Pan. It is located at the foot of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights. The spring is the source of the Banias River, one of the main tributaries of the Jordan River. Archaeologists uncovered a shrine dedicated to Pan and related deities, and the remains of an ancient city founded sometime after the conquest by Alexander the Great and inhabited until 1967; the ancient city was mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark by the name of Caesarea Philippi. * The first mention of the ancient city during the Hellenistic period was in the context of the Battle of Panium, fought around 200-198 BCE, when the name of the region was given as the Panion. Later, Pliny called the city Paneas (Greek: ). Both names were derived from that of Pan, the god of the wild and companion of the nymphs. * The spring at Banias initially originated in a large cav |