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Besara

BESARA or Bezara, a City in the neighbourhood of Ptolemaïs1 twenty furlongs from Gibeah2.

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Footnotes

  1. Joseph. de Bello, y Euseb. in locis. ↩

  2. Lib. de Vita sua. v Origen. in Joan. Tom. VIII. ↩

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