Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Adraa
ADRAA (AJprfa, Euseb. OnomasL : "A^pa. Ptol. v. 15. § 23: LXX. 'EZpativ, *E^paiv: Eng.'Vers. Edrei: and probably the *hlpaxrc6s of Hierocles, p. 273: Draa), a town in Palestine, near the sources
of the river Hieromax, and deeply embayed in the spures of the mountain chain of Hermon. Before the conquest of Canan by Joshua, it was one of the chief cities of Og, king of Bashan After his defeat and death it was assigned to the half tribe of Manas?eh which settled on the eastern side of Jordan. It was the seat of a Christian bishop at an early time, and a bishop of Adna sat in the council of Selucia (A.D. 381, and of Chalcedon (A.D. 451). By the Greeks it was called Adna, and by the Crusaders Adra(illegible text) Its ruins cover a curcuit of about 2 miles, of which a a large rectangular buildingm, surrounded by a double covered colonade, and with a cistern in the middle (Numbers, xxi 33; Deutron. i 4 iii 10; Joshua xii. 4. xiii. 12, 31; Joseph. Antiq. iv. 5. § 42 : Buckingham. Travels, vol ii. p. 146: Buckhardt, id. p. 241) [ W. B. D. ]