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Apamea - ܐܘܦܡܝܐ

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“One of the earliest Hellenistic city foundations in Syria, Apamea, situated on the Orontes ca. 90 km. south of Antioch, from the 2nd cent. onwards was an important center of Middle- and Neo-Platonist philosophy.” 1

Names

  • ܐܘܦܡܝܐ
  • Apamea2, 5, 6
  • ܐܘܦܰܡܝܰܐ3
  • ܩܰܠܥܗ̈ ܐܠܡܨ̇ܝܩ3
  • آفامية4
  • أَفَامِيَة7
  • فامية4
  • قلعة المضيق4
  • Qalat al-Madīq
  • Qalʿat al-Madīq5
  • Qal‘at al-Madīq

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.418° Long. 36.398°2

Descriptions

“ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܪܰܒܬܐ ܕܰܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܕܢܰܚ ܚܡܳܬ ܘܚܰܪܝܒܳܐ ܗܳܫܐ ܘܡܶܬܐܶܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܩܰܠܥܗ̈ ܐܠܡܨ̇ܝܩ.” 3
“مدينة كانت كبيرة في الشمال الشرقي من حماة وهي الآن خربة يقال لها قلعة المضيق” 4
“38. Apamea” 1
“once a large city northeast of Ḥama, it is now in ruins and is called Qalʿat al-Madīq.” 5

Attestation

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

أَفَامِيَة7 7
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay, "Apamea." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 23-24.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 23–24, 39, 44, 114, 210–211, 348, 442, 452 (fig. 6c), map: Map I A2.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 504.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 551.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Apamea.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:269.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Apamea — ܐܘܦܡܝܐ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/11.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Apamea — ܐܘܦܡܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/11.

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  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
  • 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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