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CityEmmaus, on the edge of the plain west of Jerusalem, is where the royal army of Nicanor and Gorgias camped and where Judas Maccabeus won a decisive victory over it. The Syrian general Bacchides later fortified the town. Its site is traditionally placed at Imwas, near Latrun, and it was renamed Nicopolis in the 3rd century AD. It is usually distinguished from the Emmaus of Luke 24, though some traditions identify the two.
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Emmaus (Nicopolis)
Emmaus, on the edge of the plain west of Jerusalem, is where the royal army of Nicanor and Gorgias camped and where Judas Maccabeus won a decisive victory over it. The Syrian general Bacchides later fortified the town. Its site is traditionally placed at Imwas, near Latrun, and it was renamed Nicopolis in the 3rd century AD. It is usually distinguished from the Emmaus of Luke 24, though some traditions identify the two.
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