The village (??u?) attracted to it the seditious from the outlying regions east of Galilee, who mixed with the local townsfolk and who relied upon some 230 boats on the Sea of Galilee for protection in the event of an assault upon the village. When the village was eventually overrun by the Roman army, the population surrendered.

Etymology

In the first few centuries of the Common era, many places along the Egyptian coast had borne this name, , Tarichéai, this

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