Abilene - a plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti-Lebanon
range; so called from its chief town, Abila (Luke 3:1), which
stood in the Suk Wady Barada, between
Heliopolis (Baalbec) and
Damascus, 38 miles from the former and 18 from the latter.
Lysanias[?] was governor or tetrarch of this province.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Abilene is also the name of several places in the United States of America: