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BACATHA, a City or Town which Epiphanius1 places in Arabia, in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, on the other side of Jordan. In the subscriptions of some Councils2, we find a Bishop of Bacatha. Charles de S. Paul, and after him F. Labbé, take Bacatha and Bazcata in the Tribe of Judah, to be the same place.
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