Golan

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Golan
       n : a fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and southern
           Syria; "artillery on the Golan Heights can dominate a
           large area of Israel" [syn: {Golan Heights}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Golan
     exile, a city of Bashan (Deut. 4:43), one of the three cities of
     refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of
     Galilee (Josh. 20:8). There are no further notices of it in
     Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one
     of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the
     Babylonish captivity, and almost identical with the modern
     Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 in
     breath.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Golan, passage; revolution