Golan

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Golan
    n 1: a fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and
         southern Syria; "artillery on the Golan Heights can
         dominate a large area of Israel" [syn: {Golan Heights},
         {Golan}]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Golan
exile, a city of Bashan (Deut. 4:43), one of the three cities of
refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of
Galilee (Josh. 20:8). There are no further notices of it in
Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one
of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the
Babylonish captivity, and almost identical with the modern
Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 in
breath.

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Golan, passage; revolution