The Definition of the word Golan

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.