Iturea

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Iturea or Ituraea (Ancient Greek: Ἰτουραία, Itouraía) is the Greek name of a Levantine region north of Galilee during the Late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. It extended from Mount Lebanon across the plain of Marsyas^{[dubious – discuss]} to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Syria, with its centre in Chalcis ad Libanum.^[1]