ʿAMADIYA — ʿAMADIYA, town in the mountains of Kurdistan, N.E. of Mosul; birthplace of david alroy . benjamin of Tudela in the 12th century estimated the number of Jews in Amadiya at approximately 2,000 (another manuscript gives the figure as 25,000). He… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1552–1913 — After the 1552 schism in the Church of the East, the Nestorian and Chaldean sections of the church each had, by the end of the 19th century, around twelve dioceses each. The country of the Church of the East, 1913 Contents 1 Background … Wikipedia
KURDISTAN — KURDISTAN, region in the Middle East, divided among three countries: turkey , iraq , and iran . The majority of the Muslim population of Kurdistan lives in Turkey, another part in Iran, and the smallest part in Iraq. In contrast, the Jews of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Zayya — Saint Zayya the Blessed Blessed and Handsome Born Thursday of Christ’s Ascension, 26 May (Old Style) 309 AD Palestine Died Wednesday, 7 January (Old Style) 431 AD Mata d ‘Umra d Mar Zayya, Jilu (present day Çevrecik, Hakkâri province, Turkey)… … Wikipedia
ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE — < > Bronze figurines of bulls dating from the 12th–10th c. B.C.E., Judea. Photo: Z. Radovan, Jerusalem. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF ANIMALS MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, RANGING FROM THE FANTASTIC, SUCH AS THE GREAT FISH THAT SWALLOWS JONAH, TO THE … Encyclopedia of Judaism
List of Assyrian settlements — Assyrian people Culture Music Language … Wikipedia
David Alroy — (fl. 1160) was a Jewish pseudo Messiah born in Amadiya, Iraq. David Alroy studied Torah and Talmud under Hisdai the Exilarch, and Ali, the head of the Academy in Baghdad. He was also well versed in Muslim literature and known as a worker of magic … Wikipedia
Chaldean Diocese of Amid — The black basalt Roman walls of Amid (Diyarbakir) The Diocese of Amid (Diyarbakir) was a diocese or archdiocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From at least the 13th century the city of Amid had been part of… … Wikipedia
Church of the East — For other uses, see Church of the East (disambiguation). Nestorian Church redirects here. For other uses, see Nestorian (disambiguation). Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a 7th or 8th century wall painting from a Nestorian… … Wikipedia
Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 — Syrian, Armenian and Latin bishops debate Christian doctrine in the Crusader city of Acre, late 13th century At the height of its power, in the 10th century AD, the dioceses of the Church of the East numbered well over a hundred and stretched… … Wikipedia
Blick auf die Stadt Amediye
Antikes Tor in Amediye 1994
