Antipatris

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Antipatris
Antipatris (Israel)
Antipatris
Antipatris
Coordinates 32 ° 6 ′  N , 34 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 32 ° 6 ′  N , 34 ° 56 ′  E
Basic data
Country Israel

district

Central District
Fortress ruins in Antipatris
Fortress ruins in Antipatris

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

Web links

Commons : Antipatris  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tosefta . S. Demai  1:11 . Alternative spelling in Mishnah . S. Gittin  7: 7 . : אנטיפרס.
  2. ^ Duane W. Roller: The Building Program of Herod the Great . University of California Press, 1998, pp. 131 ( Google books ).
  3. 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 ).
  4. ^ Tel Afeq (Antipatris). June 28, 2015, accessed March 4, 2017 .
  5. a b Afek in the Sharon. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .