Zoara

Zoara, the biblical Zoar, previously called Bela (Genesis 14:8), was one of five cities of the plain of Jordan in the Genesis which made up the Pentapolis. It was spared the "brimstone and fire" which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in order to provide a refuge for Lot and his daughters. It is mentioned by Josephus; Ptolemy (V, xvi, 4); and by Eusebius and Saint Jerome in the Onomasticon.