Zoara
Ζοάρα
Zoara (Ζοάρα, Steph. B. sub voce a small town at the southern end of the Lacus Asphaltites in Judaea, to which Lot escaped from the burning of Sodom. (Gen. 14.2, 8, 19.22.) Josephus, in describing the same lake, states that it extends μέχρι Ζοάρων Ἀραβίας (4.100.27). During the latter times of the Roman Empire, there was a guard maintained in that part of the country, a corps of native mounted bowmen ( Equites sagittarii Indigenae Zoarae
), who were under the command of the Dux Palaestinae. (Notit. Imper.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.