Qinnasrin
Sign in to saveQinnašrīn (; ; ; ) was a historical town in northern Syria. The town was situated southwest of Aleppo on the west bank of the Queiq (historically, the Belus) and was connected to Aleppo with a major road during Roman times.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Qinnasrin
- Ancient site.caption
- The ancient Roman road connecting between Antioch and Qinnasrin, then called Chalcis
- Ancient site.map_type
- Syria
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Syria
- Ancient site.region
- Aleppo Governorate
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Aleppo Governorate
- Capital of
- Jund Qinnasrin
- Image
- Ancient Roman road of Tall Aqibrin.jpg
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- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Late Roman and Byzantine period
- Early Islamic period
- Ottoman period
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Qinnašrīn (; ; ; ) was a historical town in northern Syria. The town was situated southwest of Aleppo on the west bank of the Queiq (historically, the Belus) and was connected to Aleppo with a major road during Roman times.
Some scholars propose that the ruins of Qinnašrīn are located at al-Hadher to the east of the Queiq River, while Chalcis' location was at the modern Syrian village of Al-Iss, Aleppo Governorate to the west of the river. Others think that Qinnasrin has always been located at al-Iss from the Hellenistic to the Ayyubid period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qinnasrin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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