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ANTARADOS (Ancient city) SYRIA
Antaradus (Antarados, Ptol. v. 15. § 16; Hierocles, p. 716: Tartus),
a town of Phoenicia, situated at its northern extremity, and on the mainland over
against the island of Aradus, whence its name. According to the Antonine Itinerary
and Peutinger Table, it was 24 M. P. from Balanea, and 50 M. P. from Tripolis.
The writer in Ersch and Groer's Encyclopadie (s. v.) places Antaradus on the coast
about 2 miles to the N. of Aradus, and identifies it with Carne (Steph. B. s.
v.) or Carnos, the port of Aradus, according to Strabo (xvi. p. 753; comp. Plin.
v. 18). It was rebuilt by the emperor Constantius, A.D. 346, who gave it the name
of Constantia. (Cedren. Hist. Comp. p. 246.) It retained, however, its former
name, as we find its bishops under both titles in some councils after the reign
of Constantius. In the crusades it was a populous and well fortified town (Guil.
Tyr. vii. 15), and was known under the name of Tortosa (Tasso, Gerusalem. Liberata,
i. 6; Wilken, Die Kreuzz, vol. i. p. 255, ii. p. 200, vii. p. 340, 713). By Maundrell
and others the modern Tartus has been confounded with Arethusa, but incorrectly.
It is now a mean village of 241 taxable Moslems and 44 Greeks, according to the
American missionaries. (Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. v. p. 247.) The walls, built of
heavy bevelled stones, are still remaining the most imposing specimen of Phoenician
fortification in Syria. (Memoires sur les Pheniciens par l' Abbe Mignot, Acad.
des Belles Lettres, vol. xxxiv. p. 239; Edrisi, par Jaulert, p. 129, 130.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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