Antipatris
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Coordinates | 32 ° 6 ′ N , 34 ° 56 ′ E | |
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Country | Israel | |
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ISO 3166-2 | IL-M | |
Fortress ruins in Antipatris
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Antipatris ( Hebrew אנטיפטריס, ancient Greek : Αντιπατρίς ) was an ancient city in Judea near the present-day town of Tel Afek in Israel .
The original name of the place that appears in ancient Egyptian and biblical texts was Aphek . The names Pegai and Arethuse are also attested in the Hellenistic period .
history
Herod the Great had the city rebuilt and named it after his father Antipater . According to Acts of the Apostles ( Acts 23.31 EU ), the apostle Paul is said to have stayed as a prisoner on the way from Jerusalem to Caesarea in Antipatris. Antipatris still existed in late antiquity when the city was the seat of a bishop. The titular bishopric Antipatris of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
The city was partially destroyed by an earthquake in AD 363.
The Ottoman Empire built the fortress Binar Bashi ( pınar başı ) in the city between 1572 and 1574 under Sultan Selim II . It was supposed to secure the trade route there.
literature
- Avraham Negev : Antipatris, Israel . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Immanuel Benzinger : Antipatris . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2501.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tosefta . S. Demai 1:11 . Alternative spelling in Mishnah . S. Gittin 7: 7 . : אנטיפרס.
- ^ Duane W. Roller: The Building Program of Herod the Great . University of California Press, 1998, pp. 131 ( Google books ).
- ↑ Hieronymus : Jerome's Epitaph on Paula. A Commentary on the "Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae" . Edited and translated by Andrew Cain. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967260-8 , p. 223, footnote 8 ( look inside the book ).
- ^ Tel Afeq (Antipatris). June 28, 2015, accessed March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Afek in the Sharon. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .