Gaulanitis (Place)
GAULANITIS (PLACE) [Gk Gaulanitis (Γαυλανιτις)]. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods Gaulanitis was the common name for the Golan, a rocky plateau situated immediately E of the Jordan and stretching from the foothills of Mt. Hermon in the N to the Wadi Yarmuk in the SE. See also GOLAN HEIGHTS. Although