Richard Hodges. Eternal Butrint. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Albania.(Book review) Antiquity (6/1/2008)
...autonomous Greek city (polis), bur possibly in origin a settlement of Corfu Greeks established on a mainland territory (peraea) to exploit the fish and other commodities obtainable from the local shepherds. Caesar was minded to plant a settlement of...

The parable of the unforgiving servant.(Opinion & Editorial) Manila Bulletin (3/1/2005)
...incredibly huge amount. It has been reckoned to equal 50 times the taxes due to the Roman emperor from the provinces of Galilee and Peraea, 11 times the annual income of King Herod, or the food needed to feed 820,000 families for 50 years. In modern terms...

The parable of the unforgiving servant. Manila Bulletin (3/16/2004)
...his master "ten thousand talents." This amount is about fifty times the taxes to be paid by the provinces of Galilee and Peraea to the Roman emperor. It is also eleven times the annual income of the extremely wealthy King Herod. On the other hand, the...

Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke: A Study in Non-Conformity to the Torah and Jewish Vigilante Reactions. The Journal of the American Oriental Society (1/1/1997)
...itself. Thus we read (Josephus, Antiquities 20.2) that in the year 44, not long after the death of Stephen, the Jews of Peraea took up arms without the sanction of their leaders against the people of Philadelphia. A major point to be made, however...