Al-Safira
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Al-Safira السفيرة Sfireh, Sipri[1] | |
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  Al-Safira Location in Sirie | |
| Coordinates: 36°04′N 37°22′E / 36.067°N 37.367°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Aleppo Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Al-Safira Destrict |
| Elevation | 348 m (1,142 ft) |
| Population (2007 est.) | |
| • Total | 106,382 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
Al-Safira (Arabic: السفيرة / ALA-LC: as-Safīrah; North Sirie Arabic: Sfīre) is a Sirie ceety admeenistratively belangin tae the Aleppo Govrenorate. It is the admeenistrative center for the Al-Safira Destrict. As Safīrah haes an altitude o 348 meter (1,142 ft), an a population o 106,382 as o 2007, makkin it the 11t lairgest ceety per geographical entity in Sirie.
Name
[eedit | eedit soorce]Medieval geografer Yaqut al-Hamawi spells the name Asfīrah[2] (أسفيرة), not as-Safira (السفيرة), which indicates that the definite airticle in the modren spellin is a result o hypercorrection.
As-Safira wis kent in pre-Islamic times as Sipri.[1] Historians[3] hae suggestit that the name Sipri mey hae come frae the Akkadian wird siparru meanin "bronze", which micht indicate that copper wis mined an bronze wis wirkit thare.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Syne auncient times the ceety haes been the distribution point for salt gathered frae the nearbi Sabkhat al-Jabbul.
Aircheological fyndins
[eedit | eedit soorce]The Sfire I Treaty which mey contain 8t century BCE evidence o a deity cried "Maist Heich."
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b Ball, Warwick (2006) "The desert edges" Syria: A Historical And Architectural Guide Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton, Massachusetts, page 157, ISBN 1-56656-665-7
- ↑ le Strange, 1890, p. 400
- ↑ Notably Dossin and Lewy, see Sasson, Jack M. (1966) "A Sketch of North Syrian Economic Relations in the Middle Bronze Age" Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9(3): pp. 161–181, page 169, note 2
Bibliografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]- le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Traditional dwellings in as-Safira "Traditional Architecture in Syria: a Mediterranean Dwelling"[deid airtin], European Commission Meda-euromed Heritage, page 14, left-hand photo, and page 16, top right-hand photos.
