HAVRAN. Ezekiel, xlvii. 16. speaks of Havran as a Canton situated to the north-east of the holy Land. Some suppose it to be the same as Ituræa. St. Luke says, that Philip the son of Herod was master of Ituræa and the Trachonitis. Josephus says, that he possessed Batanæa, Trachonitis, and Auranitis: where it is observable, that the Auranitis and Ituræa are put one for the other. St. Jerom says, that Havran is a city in the wilderness belonging to the country of Damascus. An Arabian Geographer places the land of Havran, as he speaks, or Paræst. t. 1. l. 1. c. 22. p. 107.Auran, to the south of Damascus; and Abulfeda says, that Bozra is the Capital of the country of Havran. Golius in his notes upon Abulpharga says, that the Syrians and Arabians call that part of the land Havran, where Tiberias on the sea of Galilee is situated. William of Tyre calls it the Auranitis. It is certain that the Auranitis was beyond 1 Kings xix. 15, 16.Jordan.
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