Gaulan

GAULAN, Gaulon, or Golan, a celebrated City beyond Jordan, from whence the small Province called Gaulanitis takes its name. It was given to the Half-tribe of Deut. iv. 43.Manasseh on the other side of Jordan. A cession of it was made to the Levites of Gershom’s family for a place of abode to them, Josh. xxi. 27.and it became a City of refuge. Eusebius says, that in his time the City of Gaulon was still considerable in the Batanæa, or country of Basan: but he does not exactly describe its situation. It is strange, that we should be so little acquainted with the position of so celebrated a City. It was seated in Upper Galilee, beyond Jordan; and Judas of Gaulon, Head of the Galileeans or Herodians, was a native of it. The Gaulanitis extended as far as from the Peræa to Libanus.

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