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Arwad Island

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Names
Transliterated Name Language Name
Arwad Arabic أرواد‎
Ruad Island
Árados Greek Ἄραδος
Aradus Latin
Arwad Phoenician
Antioch Under the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus I renamed it Antioch after himself or the father of Seleucus the Great
Irtu Annals of Thutmose III at the Karnak Temple
Arvad
Arpad
Arphad
Introduction
Introduction

Arwad Island is a small rocky island located off the Syrian coast in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It lies opposite the mainland city of Tartus and is roughly 100 km from Beirut. The island is the site of the ancient Phoenician city of Arwad (classical Aradus), one of the most important maritime centers of the northern Levant.

Arwad Island (Aradus) from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites



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Chronology
Beirut Conversion Quake Tsunami (?) - 347/348/349 CE

Discussion

Discussion

Notes and Further Reading
References

Articles and Books

Ambraseys, N. N. (1962). "Data for the Investigation of the Seismic Sea-Waves in the Eastern Mediterranean." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 52(4): 895–913.

Antonopoulos, J. (1979). "Catalogue of Tsunamis in the Eastern Mediterranean from Antiquity to Present Times." Annals of Geophysics 32(1): 113–130.

Antonopoulos, J. (1980a). Data from Investigation on Seismic Sea-Waves Events in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Birth of Christ to 500 A.D. Annals of Geophysics 33(1).

Salamon, A., Rockwell, T., Guidoboni, E., and Comastri, A. (2011). A Critical Evaluation of Tsunami Records Reported for the Levant Coast from the Second Millennium BCE to the Present. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 58(3): 327–354.

Sbeinati, M. R., Darawcheh, R., and Monty, M. (2005). The Historical Earthquakes of Syria: An Analysis of Large and Moderate Earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Annals of Geophysics 48(3): 347–435.

Sieberg, A. (1932b). Untersuchungen über Erdbeben und Bruchschollenbau im östlichen Mittelmeergebiet: Ergebnisse einer erdbebenkundlichen Orientreise, unternommen im Frühjahr 1928 mit Mitteln der Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. Jena: G. Fischer.