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- Although a synagogue has yet to be found at the site, Hellenistic sources confirm the presence and importance of a large Jewish population that contributed to Palmyra's multiethnic and multireligious society.
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In practice, Palmyra shifted from a provincial city to a de facto allied kingdom. [252] In 262 Odaenathus launched a new campaign against Shapur, [253] reclaiming the rest of Roman Mesopotamia (most importantly, the cities of Nisibis and Carrhae), sacking the Jewish city of Nehardea, [note 25] [254] [255] and besieging the Persian capital ...
Jan 12, 2018 · Interestingly, the Arabs assimilated with the city’s existing population and are said to have spoken the local dialect of Palmyrene. There was also a significant Jewish population in Palmyra.
In the twelfth century more than 2,000 Jewish families were living in the vicinity of Palmyra. The men were warlike, and often came in conflict with the Christians and Mohammedans. A Hebrew inscription found in the ruins of the city and consisting of the beginning of the Jewish Shema' (Deut. v. 4-9) was published by Landauer in the ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Palmyra, ancient city in south-central Syria, 130 miles (210 km) northeast of Damascus. The name Palmyra, meaning “city of palm trees,” was conferred upon the city by its Roman rulers in the 1st century ce; Tadmur, Tadmor, or Tudmur, the pre-Semitic name of the site, is also still in use.
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In the late Roman period, Palmyra existed as a minor provincial town with a Roman garrison. Over the following centuries Palmyra lost its Greco-Roman identity, becoming known as Tadmor—a name of Arabic origin that references its position as a desert oasis and its association with the date palm.
TADMOR (Heb. תַּדְמֹר; Palmyra), an oasis city at the point of intersection of the caravan roads in the central Syrian desert and the steppe land between Lebanon and Jabel Bishri, halfway between the Euphrates and the Orontes River in the Mediterranean Sea area.
Built around an oasis in the Syrian desert, Tadmur or Palmyra, “city of palms,” was one of the most important trade and cultural centers of the ancient world. Palmyra had a distinctive local culture that was incorporated into the Roman Empire in the first century C.E.
