Al-Safira
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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.
Al-Safira السفيرة Sfireh, Sipri[1] | |
|---|---|
  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 |
Name
eeditMedieval 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
eeditSyne auncient times the ceety haes been the distribution point for salt gathered frae the nearbi Sabkhat al-Jabbul.
Aircheological fyndins
eeditThe Sfire I Treaty which mey contain 8t century BCE evidence o a deity cried "Maist Heich."
Notes
eedit- ↑ 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- 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- 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.