Aphum - ܦܘܡ

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"Aphum was a fortification in the Roman-Persian border area in southern Armenia to the east of Martyropolis and the river Batman. Joh. Eph., EH 6.34, records that Maurice conquered it from the Persians in 578."3

Names

  • ܦܘܡ
  • Aphum
  • ܦܘܡ2
  • Aphum1

Place Type

fortification

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 38.04186° Long. 41.453009°4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Michael Whitby, The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), p: 269. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 338chapter: 3.6.34. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Michael Whitby, The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), p: 255 and 269. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874329