 Arwad viewed from the air Arwad – formerly Arado (Greek: Άραδο), Arados (Greek: Άραδος), Arvad, Arpad, Arphad, Antiochia in Pieria (Greek: Αντιόχεια της Πιερίας), Latin: Aradus, and also transliterated from the Arabic as Ar-Ruad – located in the Mediterranean Sea, is the only island in Syria. The town of Arwad takes up the entire island. It is located 3 km from Tartous, Syria's second-largest port. Today, it is mainly a fishing town. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
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The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
Tartous (Arabic: طرطوس, also transliterated Tartus) is Syrias second largest port city after Latakia, and capital of Tartous governorate. ...
History
The island was settled in the early 2nd millennium BC by the Phoenicians. Under Phoenician control, it became an independent kingdom called Arvad or Jazirat (the latter term meaning "island"). The city has been cited[1] as the first known example of a republic in the Levant region, in which the people, rather than a monarch, are described as sovereign. In Greek it was known as Arado or Arados. The city also appears in ancient sources as Arpad and Arphad.[2] The city was renamed Antiochia in Pieria by Antiochus I Soter. The island was important as a base for commercial ventures into the Orontes valley. Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plains of what are now Lebanon and Syria. ...
In a broad definition a republic is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control of the people of that state or country. ...
The Levant Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ...
Silver coin of Antiochus I. The reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. ...
The Orontes or ‘Asi is a river of Lebanon and Syria. ...
The Island was mentioned twice in The Holy Bible, The Prophet Ezekial on the Phoenician City of Tyre, ch. 27: A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ...
For a wheel tyre, see the article under the US English spelling of the word, tire. ...
"The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots" Sidon, Zidon or Saida, (Arabic صيدا á¹¢aydÄ is the third-largest city in Lebanon. ...
Harbor in Arwad Arwad viewed from the air Arwad, located in the Mediterranean sea, is the only island in Syria. ...
"The men of Arvad with thine army, were upon thy walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty." Harbor in Arwad Arwad viewed from the air Arwad, located in the Mediterranean sea, is the only island in Syria. ...
References - ↑ Martin Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), 359.
- ↑ Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer, p. 53.
External links - Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer
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