Amyūn - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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“The town of Amyūn is situated 20 km. south of Tripoli (Northern Lebanon), on the road between Chekka and Kousba, built on a high, rocky cliff rising above the plains of olives and fruit orchards watered by the Qadisha river.” 1
Names
- Amyūn2
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 34.299737° Long. 35.815881°3
Descriptions
“34. Amyūn” 1
“The town of Amyūn is situated 20 km. south of Tripoli (Northern Lebanon), on the road between Chekka and Kousba, built on a high, rocky cliff rising above the plains of olives and fruit orchards watered by the Qadisha river.” 1
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- 1 E. C. Dodd34. AmyūnThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 20-21., p: 20-21.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 20–21, 239, 425, map: Map V.
- 3 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668186
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Thomas A. Carlson, “Amyūn” last modified January 14, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/269.
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Thomas A. Carlson, “Amyūn.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published January 14, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/269.About this Entry
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- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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