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
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Place Type
settlement
Location
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- Lat. 35.418° Long. 36.398°2
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“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
“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
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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.
- 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.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:269.
- 8 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 275; 292; 293; 314; 315; 338, chapter: 3.6.6; 3.6.19; 3.6.34.
- 9 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 292; 293, chapter: 3.6.6.
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- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
- 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 David A. Michelson
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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