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ID: 7018646
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018646
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Qalunya (inhabited place)  Qalunya (inhabited place)

Note: Ancient city; another famous ancient town of same name is nearby, Emmaus Nicopolis.

Names:
Qalunya (preferred,C,V)
Emmaus (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah (occupied territory)  ........  Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah (occupied territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Qalunya (inhabited place)  ............  Qalunya (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient settlement; modern Qalunya is probably biblical Emmaus
town (C)

Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....  ʻImwas .......... (inhabited place)
..................................  (World, Asia, Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah) [7001401]
possibly identified as ....  Emmaus .......... (lost settlement)
........................................  (World, Asia, Yisra'el, Yerushalayim) [8060300]

Sources and Contributors:
Emmaus..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 274
Qalunya..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 370
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 274
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 370
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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