Amuq

Amuq

Amuq is a swamp plain in the southernmost part of Turkey and lies east of ancient Antioch or today's Antakya . It gained archaeological significance through various important finds from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age on various tells . From 1995 to 2005 the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out an archaeological survey there .

According to Islamic eschatology , here Saheeh Muslim , Book 41, Hadith 6924, at the end of time, Muslim armies will meet their enemies in Amuq or Dabiq .

Web links

• Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, The Amuq Survey and Related Projects

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of History . Orbis, 2001, ISBN 3-572-01285-6 , pp. 44 .
2. ↑ Florian Flade: "We have been waiting for you for over 1400 years". In: welt.de . December 1, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Analysis: Where ISIS comes from and what it wants. In: DiePresse.com. November 18, 2015, accessed January 18, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 36 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E