Gerrha
Gerrha (
History
Prior to Gerrha, the area belonged to the
Description
Strabo described the city as having "fancy tools made out of gold and silver, such as the family gold, right [Qawa'im] triangles, and their drinking glass, let alone their large homes which have their doors, walls, roofs filled with colors, gold, silver, and holy stones" [2]
Location and etymology
To the Ancient Greeks, eastern Arabia (the present-day
Another location suggested as Gerrha is
The city of Gerrha was taken by the Qarmatians at the end of the ninth century.[6] It was 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Persian Gulf near present-day Hofuf. The researcher Abdulkhaliq Al Janbi argued in his book that Gerrha was most likely the ancient city of Hajar, located in modern-day Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.[7] Al-Janbi's theory is the most widely accepted one by modern scholars, although there are some difficulties with this argument, given that Al-Ahsa is 60 km inland and thus less likely to be the starting point for a trader's route, making a location within the archipelago of islands comprising the modern Kingdom of Bahrain, particularly the main island of Bahrain itself, another possibility.[8][1]
Origins of the inhabitants of Gerrha
See also
- Chaldea
- Eastern Arabia
- Uqair, an ancient fort suggested by some historians as the location of Gerrha
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 903.
- ^ Strabo, Geography, i6. 4. 19-20
- ISBN 9789047430322.
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- ISBN 0859895521.
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- ^ Tareekh al-Bahrain: Shaikh Tahir al-Qassimi, pages 53-65
- ^ Abdulkhaliq Al-Janbi. Gerrha, The Ancient City of International Trade جره مدينة التجارة العالمية القديمة.
- ISBN 0-226-46906-9.
- ISBN 0-415-19534-9.
References
- Bibby, Geoffrey (1970). Looking for Dilmun. Collins, London. ISBN 0-00-211475-5.
- Potts, D. T. (1990). The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity Volume II: From Alexander the Great to the Coming of Islam. Oxford, Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-814391-5