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Arethusa - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A Hellenistic city near Apamea, now called al-Rastan.

Names

  • Arethusa1
  • الرَّسْتَن2

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.96017° Long. 36.73511°1

Attestation

Attestation of name الرَّسْتَن in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

الرَّسْتَن2 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), map: Map I B2.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:49.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Arethusa” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/27.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Arethusa.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/27.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Arethusa

Additional Credit:

  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz

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