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ID: 6000119
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000119
Record Type:
administrative
Ajnadayn (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 031 40 58 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.6833
decimal degrees
Note:
Scene of victory in 634 CE by Arabs over Theodorus, brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius, opening the way for the Muslim conquest of Syria.
Names:
Ajnadayn
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ajnadain
(
C
,
V
)
أجنادين
(
C
,
V
,
Arabic
,
U
)
Jannabatain
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah
(occupied territory) (
P
)
............
Ajnadayn
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an important ancient center
village (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
Arabian (Arab) (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
أجنادين..........
[
VP
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Ajnadain..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 13
Ajnadayn..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................
Google Maps online (2000-)
Jannabatain..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
18
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 13
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
18
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
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