 | Qalat esh-Shmemis |
| region: | Go to overview listLevant |
| section: | Northern Levant |
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| latitude: | 35.0369014114 N |
| longitude: | 37.0135756854 E |
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| data set: | ID: 4520, added: 2012-05-02 21:58:32, last changed: 2012-05-02 21:58:32 |
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| info: | The castle Qalat Shmamis was first built, on top of an extinct volcano, in the 1st century BCE by Sampsiceramus I, the first Priest King of the Royal family of Emesa. Most of the original structure was subsequently destroyed by an earthquake. It was later destroyed by the Persian king Khosrau II in 613 CE. It was rebuilt in 1229 CE by Assad ud-Din Shirkoh, an Ayyubid governor of Homs. However, the Mongols destroyed it in 1260 CE and then by the Tatars in 1401 CE. It was rebuilt after the expulsion of the Mongols and Tatars from Syria. |
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| 35.036901, 37.013576 = 35.036901 N, 37.013576 E = 35°2'12.8" N, 37°0'48.9" E |
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| information source: | University of Uppsala
The Department of Linguistics and Philology is a part of the Faculty of Languages, and therefore within the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is responsible for research and education in African and Asian languages and cultures, the European classical languages, as well as linguistics and computational linguistics. |
Olof Pedersén
Professor in Assyriology.
His research has treated different central aspects of the use of written documentation within the older cultures in the Ancient Near East and the relation between the written and the material historical evidence. |
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