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ID: 7001401
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001401
Record Type:
administrative
ʻImwas (inhabited place)
Note:
Town of ancient Palestine; location where Judas Maccabeus defeated Gorgias in Jewish revolt of 2nd cen. BCE.
Names:
ʻImwas
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Imwas
(
C
,
V
)
Emmaus
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Emmaus Nicopolis
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah
(occupied territory) (
P
)
............
ʻImwas
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient settlement
town (
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Qalunya
.......... (inhabited place)
..................................
(World, Asia, Aḍ Ḍaffah al Gharbīyah) [7018646]
possibly identified as ....
Emmaus
.......... (lost settlement)
........................................
(World, Asia, Yisra'el, Yerushalayim) [8060300]
Sources and Contributors:
Emmaus..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Emmaus Nicopolis..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 274
Imwas..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 274
ʻImwas..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
370
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 274
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
370
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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