Maiuma (also Maiumas or Maiouma, Maioumas) is one of the names of the main ancient port of Gaza, at times functioning as a separate city; the other ancient...
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Maiuma, Maiumas, Maiouma, Maïouma or Maioumas is the name of an ancient festival and related toponyms. Maiuma may refer to: Maiuma (city), ancient port...
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Cosmas of Maiuma, also called Cosmas Hagiopolites ("of the Holy City"), Cosmas of Jerusalem, Cosmas the Melodist, or Cosmas the Poet (d. 773 or 794), was...
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Maiuma or Maiouma, also written with a final s, was a Graeco-Syrian nocturnal water festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite and held during the month...
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History of Gaza (redirect from History of Gaza City)
inhabitants of Maiuma reportedly converted to Christianity en masse. Constantine II decided to separate it from pagan Gaza in 331, giving Maiuma city rights and...
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Christianity began to spread throughout Gaza in 250 AD, including in the port of Maiuma. First evidence of a Bishop of Gaza is from early 4th century, when St....
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Gaza synagogue (category Religious buildings and structures in Gaza City)
It was located in the ancient port city of Gaza, then known as "Maiumas", currently the Rimal district of Gaza City. In 1965, Egyptian archaeologists discovered...
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deceased. Located between Gaza and Ascalon, the city served as one of the two ports of Gaza, along with Maiuma. As the Persian empire replaced its Assyrian...
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Port of Gaza (redirect from Port of Gaza City)
the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). In earlier times, the port of Maiuma, or el Mineh (Arabic for "the harbour"), was located in the area. In the...
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photography established that archaeological sites such as Tell el-Ajjul and Maiuma had sustained damage from airstrikes by November. On 25 November, the Rashad...
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the Monastery of Saint Romanus in Maiuma, where he was ordained a priest by Epiphanius, Bishop of Magydus. At Maiuma, Severus received his inheritance...
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Binyamina-Giv'at Ada (section Sister cities)
theatre with an adjacent semicircular pool used during the ancient pagan Maiumas water festival, and buildings of the former Arab Palestinian village of...
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en route, Jacob and his group stopped at the Monastery of St. Romanus in Maiuma where they became ill and Jacob died on 30 July 578. According to Cyriacus...
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poor and left for the wilderness. Hilarion went to the area southwest of Maiuma, the port of Gaza, that was limited by the sea at one side and marshland...
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name. Parts of the Axion Estin hymn date back to 8th-century (Cosmas of Maiuma). In the Eastern Church, the Theotokia often include biblical references...
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Translated critical edition of vitae written by John Rufus, Bishop of Maiuma. Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section Grillmeier...
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held from 27 April–3 May during the Roman Republic era, and the Maiouma or Maiuma, a festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite held every three years during...
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Diocese of Gaza (category Gaza City)
endowed the town of Maiuma, which formerly had served as Gaza's harbour, with city rights and the status of an episcopal see. Though its city rights were cancelled...
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Gaza, Mamluk period with both older and more recent elements Maiuma: Remains of Maiuma in Port of Gaza, Rimal district. See Gaza synagogue. Monastery...
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tutor of John and his orphan foster brother Cosmas of Maiuma who became the Poet of the Holy City. Apparently, John's father met Cosmas, a scholar who...
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sees of ancient Palestine, only the bishoprics of Diospolis, Maiuma of Ascalon, Maiuma of Gaza and Zoara were probably in existence in 536 and are unrepresented...
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father of the theologian John of Damascus and adoptive father of Cosmas of Maiuma. Sarjun was the son of Mansur ibn Sarjun, a Melkite Syrian Christian who...
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2007. Delaney, John P. (1980). Dictionary of Saints (Second ed.). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-13594-7. Stracke, Richard. "Saint Agnes of Montepulciano:...
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John Rufus, John of Beth Rufina (also spelled Ruphina), or John of Maiuma (born c. AD 450), was an anti-Chalcedonian priest of Antioch, a disciple of Peter...
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Umayyad period include the theologian John of Damascus, bishop Cosmas of Maiuma, Pope Benjamin I of Alexandria and Isaac of Nineveh. Although non-Muslims...
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painted Attic drinking cup Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic religion Maiuma (festival) dedicated to Dionysus and Aphrodite Theatre of Dionysus in Athens...
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sometime in the future. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan proposed the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, located in East Jerusalem, to be listed as a...
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an anti-Chalcedonian priest who moved to Maiuma after the expulsion of his master, Peter the Fuller. In Maiuma, John Rufus authored the Plerophoriae and...
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Constantine with his Mother Helen". "Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2024-08-06. "Apostle Crescens of the Seventy"....
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an anti-Chalcedonian priest who moved to Maiuma after the expulsion of his master, Peter the Fuller. In Maiuma, John Rufus authored the Plerophoriae and...
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