Raphanea, the Glossary
Raphanea or Raphaneae (Ῥαφάνεια; al-Rafaniyya; colloquial: Rafniye) was a city of the late Roman province of Syria Secunda.[1]
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28 relations: Antioch, Apamea, Syria, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Berytus, Council of Chalcedon, Count of Tripoli, Elagabalus, First Council of Constantinople, First Council of Nicaea, George of Cyprus, Hama Governorate, Heinrich Gelzer, Hierocles (author of Synecdemus), Homs, Josephus, Legio III Gallica, Michel Le Quien, Notitiae Episcopatuum, Roman emperor, Roman province, Roman Syria, Sambatiyon, Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE), Suffragan bishop, Synecdemus, Syria, Tabula Peutingeriana, Titus.
- Archaeological sites in Hama Governorate
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.
Apamea, Syria
Apamea (Ἀπάμεια, Apameia; آفاميا, Afamia), on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek and Roman city. Raphanea and Apamea, Syria are Archaeological sites in Hama Governorate and Former populated places in Syria.
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Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin I (1060s – 2 April 1118) was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118.
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Berytus
Berytus (Biruta; Bērytós; Bērȳtus), briefly known as Laodicea in Phoenicia (Λαοδίκεια ἡ ἐν Φοινίκῃ) or Laodicea in Canaan from the 2nd century to 64 BCE, was the ancient city of Beirut (in modern-day Lebanon) from the Roman Republic through the Roman Empire and Early Byzantine period/late antiquity.
Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Chalcedon (Concilium Chalcedonense) was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
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Count of Tripoli
The count of Tripoli was the ruler of the County of Tripoli, a crusader state from 1102 through to 1289.
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Elagabalus
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus and Heliogabalus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager.
First Council of Constantinople
The First Council of Constantinople (Concilium Constantinopolitanum; Σύνοδος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in AD 381 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
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First Council of Nicaea
The First Council of Nicaea (Sýnodos tês Nikaías) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.
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George of Cyprus
George of Cyprus (Γεώργιος Κύπρου; Latinized as Georgius Cyprius) was a Greek Byzantine geographer of the early seventh century.
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Hama Governorate
Hama Governorate (مُحافظة حماة / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ḥamā) is one of the 14 governorates of Syria.
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Heinrich Gelzer
Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in Berlin – 11 July 1906, in Jena) was a German classical scholar.
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Hierocles (Greek: Ἱεροκλῆς Hierokles) was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each.
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Homs
Homs (حِمْص / ALA-LC:; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa (Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.
Legio III Gallica
Legio III Gallica (Third Legion "Gallic") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army.
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Michel Le Quien
Michel Le Quien (8 October 1661, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 12 March 1733, Paris) was a French historian and theologian.
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Notitiae Episcopatuum
The Notitiae Episcopatuum (singular: Notitia Episcopatuum) were official documents that furnished for Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.
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Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
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Roman Syria
Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of Armenia Tigranes the Great, who had become the protector of the Hellenistic kingdom of Syria.
Sambatiyon
Sambatiyon, a kleynkunst company founded in Vilna, Poland in June 1926, was called by its founders a "Jewish literary-artistic revue theater." Sambatiyon's founder, Yitshkhok Nozhik, wrote: "Clumsy American produced operettas, which are mostly melodramas or complete tragedies with song and dance, no longer interest our audience.
Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
The Siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea.
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Suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
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Synecdemus
The Synecdemus or Synekdemos (Συνέκδημος) is a geographic text, attributed to Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of their cities.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Tabula Peutingeriana
Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Empire.
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Titus
Titus Caesar Vespasianus (30 December 39 – 13 September AD 81) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81.
See also
Archaeological sites in Hama Governorate
- Abu Qubays, Syria
- Apamea, Syria
- Fan Shamali
- Qalaat al-Madiq
- Qarqar
- Qasr Abu Samrah
- Qasr Ibn Wardan
- Raphanea
- Tell Qarqur
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphanea
Also known as Rafania, Rafaniya, Rafaniyya, Rafanīya, Rafniye, Raphaneae, Rhaphanaea.