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    Qinnasrin (redirect from Chalcis, Syria)
    Appian, Chalcis was founded by Seleucus I Nicator (reigned 305-281 BC), and named after Chalcis in Euboea. Chalcis was distinguished from Chalcis sub Libanum...
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    Chalcis (/ˈkælsɪs/; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: Χαλκίς, romanized: Chalkís), also called Chalkida or Halkida (Modern Greek: Χαλκίδα, pronounced [xalˈciða])...
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    Iamblichus of Chalcis: The Letters, 2009, ISBN 1-58983-161-6. Fragmentary commentaries on Plato and Aristotle Bent Dalsgaard Larsen, Jamblique de Chalcis: Exégète...
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    Syria Prima (I) listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees: Anasartha (Khanasir) Barcusus (Baquza or Banqusa) Beroea (Aleppo) Chalcis in Syria...
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    Emesa and Chalcis offered a peace treaty for a year. Abu Ubaidah accepted the offer and, rather than invading districts of Emesa and Chalcis, he consolidated...
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    Aristobulus V of Chalcis (Greek: Ἀριστόβουλος) was a son of Herod of Chalcis and his first wife Mariamne. Herod of Chalcis, ruler of Chalcis in Iturea, was...
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  • Chalcis (Greek: Χαλκίς) is a city on the Euripus Strait between the island of Euboea and the Greek mainland. Other cities of Antiquity: Chalcis (Aeolis)...
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    Iturea (redirect from Kingdom of Chalcis)
    Marsyas[dubious – discuss] to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Syria, with its centre in Chalcis ad Libanum. The Itureans (Greek: Ἰτουραῖοι) were a semi-nomadic...
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    The Syrian Wars were a series of six wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, successor states to Alexander the Great's empire...
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    Korean Buddhist temples are built. Saint Jerome retires to the desert of Chalcis (Syria). The Maronite Church is founded by Saint Maron in Lebanon. The Talmud...
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  • Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (category Rashidun governors of Syria)
    Emesa and Chalcis sued for peace for a year. Abu Ubayda, accepted the offer and rather than invading the districts of Emesa and Chalcis, he consolidated...
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    of Judea was restored for good. Later Herodians, Herod of Chalcis, Aristobulus of Chalcis and Agrippa II, reigned over territories outside of Judea with...
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    disturbances there. On the death of king Herod of Chalcis in 48, his small Syrian realm of Chalcis was given to Agrippa, with the right of superintending...
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    Apostles) Evagrius Scholasticus – (6th-century historian) Iamblichus of Chalcis – (Neo-Platonist philosopher) Sopater of Apamea – (sophist and Neoplatonist...
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    Antioch (redirect from Syrian Antioch)
    road from the Euphratean ford at Thapsacus, which skirts the fringe of the Syrian steppe. A single route proceeds south in the Orontes valley. A settlement...
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  • Macedonia's involvement in the second Syrian War ceases when Antigonus becomes preoccupied with the rebellion of Corinth and Chalcis, as well as an increase in enemy...
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    Herodian dynasty (category Classical Syria)
    Judaea. In addition, Herod of Chalcis ruled as king of Chalcis, and his son, Aristobulus of Chalcis, was tetrarch of Chalcis and king of Armenia Minor. Antipater...
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    Euphorion of Chalcis (Greek: Εὐφορίων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς) was a Greek poet and grammarian, born at Chalcis in Euboea in the 126th olympiad (276–272 BC). Euphorion...
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    her paternal uncle Herod of Chalcis, with whom she had two sons, Berenician and Hyrcan. After the death of Herod of Chalcis and the insistent rumors of...
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    Saint Malchus of Syria (or Malchus of Chalcis, Malchus of Maronia) (died c. 390) is the subject of Saint Jerome's biography Life of Malchus the Captive...
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    war (192–188 BC), also called the Aetolian war, Antiochene war, Syrian war, and Syrian-Aetolian war was a military conflict between two coalitions, one...
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  • Korean Buddhist temples are built. Saint Jerome retires to the desert of Chalcis (Syria). The Maronite Church is founded by Saint Maron in Lebanon. The Talmud...
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    Jund Qinnasrin ("Military District of Chalcis"), part of the larger Bilad al-Sham province. During the Syrian civil war, the town saw two massacres of...
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    Hawsh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is 2,400, consisting...
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  • Lucius Julius Gainius Fabius Agrippa (category People from Roman Syria)
    Judean politics. Agrippa lived in and became a citizen of Apamea in Western Syria. Little is known of his early life. In his career, Agrippa served as a gymnasiarch...
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  • 2004 census. It is 4 kilometers east of the ancient town of Qinnasrin (Chalcis ad Belum). It was founded by the Arab tribe of Tanukh as a ḥāḍir (a settlement...
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    Itureans broke away from the weakened Seleucid Empire to form the Kingdom of Chalcis. From their base in the Bekaa, the Itureans expanded their territory to...
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    in the Daily Herald as "interesting". Asia portal List of Syrian monarchs Timeline of Syrian history "Antiochus III the Great". Livius.org. Archived from...
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    the year of AD 89. Aristobulus of Chalcis dies in AD 92, causing Chalcis to be absorbed into the Roman province of Syria. According to tradition, the diocese...
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  • (3300–2000 BC); "Old Syrian" for the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC); and "Middle Syrian" for the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BC). "Neo-Syrian" corresponds to...
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