Auranitis
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(land of caves) (Ezek. 47:16–18) — a region on the eastern side of the Jordan, south of Trachonitis and Damascus. The Greeks called it Auranitis. In ancient times, together with the land of Trachonitis, Batanaea, and Gaulanitis, it formed the kingdom of Bashan (Deut. 3:1–3). It is now known by the name Hauran, with its chief city Bosra. In antiquity this whole country was covered with cities and villages, but now in their place are seen everywhere heaps of ruins of cities and houses.
Some of these cities and houses have been so well preserved that they may be compared to the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, buried beneath the ashes of Vesuvius in 79 A.D.