Pumbedita
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Pumbedita
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Fallujah
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- native label
- פומבדיתא
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Location
- See also
- References
Pumbedita ( Pūm Bəḏīṯāʾ, "Mouth of the Bedita") was an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq. It is known for having hosted the Pumbedita Academy.
==History== The city of Pumbedita was said to have possessed a Jewish population since the days of Second Temple of Jerusalem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pumbedita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.