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KILI SYRIA (Ancient province) SYRIA
Marsyas (Marsums), a river of Coelesyria, mentioned only by Pliny
(v. 23) as dividing Apameia from the tetrarchy of the Nazerini. It was probably
the river mentioned-without its name--by Abulfeda as a tributary of the Orontes,
which, rising below Apameia, falls into the lake synonymous with that city, and
so joins the Orontes. The modern name Yarmuk is given by Pococke, who places it
in his map on the east of the Orontes. (Abulfeda, Tabula Syriae, ed. Koehler,
pp. 151, 152; Pococke, Description of the East, vol. ii. p. 79.) It doubtless
gave its name to Marsyas, a district of Syria, mentioned by Strabo, who joins
it with Ituraea, and defines its situation by the following notes:-It adjoined
the Macra Campus, on its east, and had its commencement at Laodiceia ad Libanum.
Chalcis was, as it were, an acropolis of the district. This Chalcis is joined
with Heliopolis, as under the power of Ptolemy, son of Mennaeus, who ruled over
Marsyas and Ituraea. (Strab. xvi. pp. 753, 755.) The same geographer speaks of
Chalcidice apo tou Marsuou kathekousa (p., 153), and extends it to the sources
of the Orontes, above which was the Aulon basilikos (p. 155), now the Bekaa. From
these various notices it is evident that the Marsyas comprehended the valley of
the Orontes from its rise to Apameia, where it was bounded on the north probably
by the river of the same name. But it extended westward to the Macra Campus, which
bordered on the Mediterranean. (Mannert, Geographic von Syrien, pp. 326, 363.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
CAESAREA PHILIPPI (Ancient city) SYRIA
Caesarea Philippi, a town on the northern confines of Palestine,
in the district of Trachonitis, at the foot of Mount Paneus, and near the springs
of the Jordan. It was also called Leshem, Laish, Dan, and Paneas. The name Paneas
is supposed to have been given it by the Phoenicians. The appellation of Dan was
given to it by the tribe of that name, because the portion assigued to them was
"too little for them," and they therefore "went up to fight against
Leshem, and took it," calling it "Dan, after the name of Dan, their
father". Eusebius and Jerome distinguish Dan from Paneas as if they were
different places, though near each other; but most writers consider them as one
place, and even Jerome himself, on Ezek. xlviii., says that Dan or Leshem was
afterwards called Paneas. Philip, the tetrarch, rebuilt it, or at least embellished
and enlarged it, and named it Caesarea, in honour of the emperor Tiberius; and
afterwards Agrippa, in compliment to Nero, called it Neronias.
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KILI SYRIA (Ancient province) SYRIA
Koile Suria, "Hollow Syria". The name given to the
great valley between the two ranges of Mount Lebanon (Libanus and Anti-Libanus),
in the south of Syria, bordering upon Phoenicia on the west and Palestine on the
south. In the wars between the Ptolemies and the Seleucidae, the name was applied
to the whole of the southern portion of Syria, which became subject for some time
to the kings of Egypt.
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CAESAREA PHILIPPI (Ancient city) SYRIA
City on the NW slope of Mt. Hermon on one of the tributaries of the
Jordan. Its great god was Pan, who was identified with Zeus and associated with
the Nymphs. The city was refounded under the name Caesarea by Philip the Tetrarch,
son of King Herod the Great, in 2-1 B.C., and renamed Neronias under Agrippa II.
The site has not been excavated. Remains of ramparts with towers were
visible some time ago, as well as numbers of column shafts scattered in the orchards
or incorporated in the mediaeval fortifications, and Doric frieze fragments reused
in the parapet of the bridge on the Nahr es-Saari.
The Sanctuary of Pan and the Nymphs was a grotto from which the river
emerged under an arched opening; it was set among plane trees and poplars. Niches
with shells, framed by fluted pilasters to form little chapels, were carved in
the rock face. Dedicatory inscriptions in Greek indicate that two of the niches
held statues of Hermes and the nymph Echo. Two columns in front of the grotto
may have supported a canopy. Gratings or openwork metal gates protected these
rustic sanctuaries, which date from the Roman period.
J. P. Rey-Coquais, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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