Abilene
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
a small province in Cœlo Syria, between Lebanon and Antilibanus. Of this place Lysanias was governor in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, Luke iii, 1. Abela, or Abila, the capital, was north of Damascus, and south of Heliopolis.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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