Sura (city)

Coordinates: 31°53′N 44°27′E / 31.883°N 44.450°E / 31.883; 44.450
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Sura
סורא
Sura is located in Iraq
Sura
Sura
Location in modern day Iraq
Coordinates: 31°53′N 44°27′E / 31.883°N 44.450°E / 31.883; 44.450
Country Iraq

Sura (

Babylonian Talmud
.

Location

According to

Imperial Aramaic: סורא) was identical to the town of Mata Mehasya, which is also mentioned in the Talmud, but Mata Mehasya is cited in the Talmud many times, either as a nearby town or a suburb of Sura,[1] and the Talmudist academy in Mata Mehasya served as a branch of Sura Academy, which was founded by Abba Arikha
in the third century.

A contemporary

al-Hirah in the Sawad. A responsum of Natronai ben Hilai says that Sura was about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Harta D'Argiz, understood to be al-Hirah.[2]

History

Byzantine–Sasanian wars

It was a [Byzantine] garrison of some importance in the Persian campaigns of

Chosroes I. (A.D. 532), who, having marched three long days' journey from Circesium to Zenobia, along the course of the Euphrates, thence proceeded an equal distance up the river to Sura. Incidental mention of the bishop proves that it was then an episcopal see. (Procop. Bell. Pers. i. 18, ii. 5.) Its walls were so weak that it did not hold out more than half an hour; but it was afterwards more substantially fortified, by order of the emperor Justinian. (Id. de Aedificiis Justiniani, ii. 9.)"[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ * סורא. Jewish Encyclopedia Daat (in Hebrew). Herzog College.
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  3. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. II. Iabadius—Zymethus (1870). Edited by William Smith. London: Walton and Maberly; John Murray, London, p. 1048. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.