Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Arab' in the following places:
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The city's inhabitants worshiped local Semitic deities, Mesopotamian and Arab gods. | WIKI |
Contents 1 Etymology 2 Region and city layout 2.1 Layout 3 People, language, and society 3.1 Ethnicity of classical Palmyra 3.2 Language 3.3 Social organization 4 Culture 4.1 Art and architecture 5 Site 5.1 Cemeteries 5.2 Notable structures 5.2.1 Public buildings 5.2.2 Temples 5.2.3 Other buildings 5.3 Destruction by ISIL 5.3.1 Restoration 6 History 6.1 Early period 6.2 Hellenistic and Roman periods 6.2.1 Autonomous Palmyrene region 6.2.2 Palmyrene kingdom 6.2.2.1 Persian wars 6.2.2.2 Palmyrene empire 6.2.3 Later Roman and Byzantine periods 6.3 Arab caliphates 6.3.1 Umayyad and early Abbasid periods 6.3.2 Decentralization 6.4 Mamluk period 6.4.1 Al Fadl principality 6.5 Ottoman era 6.6 20th Century 6.7 Syrian Civil War 7 Government 7.1 Military 7.1.1 Relations with Rome 8 Religion 8.1 Malakbel and the Roman Sol Invictus 9 Economy 9.1 Commerce 10 Research and excavations 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 13.1 Citations 13.2 Sources 14 External links | WIKI |
[50] The Arab newcomers were assimilated by the earlier inhabitants, used Palmyrene as a mother tongue,[51] and formed a significant segment of the aristocracy. | WIKI |
[67] Aside from the existence of a Palmyrene ethnicity, Aramean or Arab are the two main ethnic designations debated by historians;[62] Javier Teixidor stated that "Palmyra was an Aramaean city and it is a mistake to consider it as an Arab town", while Yasamin Zahran criticized this statement and argued that the inhabitants considered themselves Arabs. | WIKI |
[68] In practice, according to several scholars such as Udo Hartmann and Michael Sommer, the citizenry of Palmyra were mainly the result of Arab and Aramaean tribes merging into a unity with a corresponding consciousness; they thought and acted as Palmyrenes. | WIKI |
[76] After the Arab conquest, Greek was replaced by Arabic,[74] from which, although the city was surrounded by Bedouins, a Palmyrene dialect evolved. | WIKI |
Arab caliphates[edit] | WIKI |
[88][303] In the 1070s Syria was conquered by the Seljuk Empire,[304] and in 1082, the district of Homs came under the control of the Arab lord Khalaf ibn Mula'ib. | WIKI |
Due to its military character and efficiency in battle, Palmyra was described by Irfan Shahxc3xaed as the "Sparta among the cities of the Orient, Arab and other, and even its gods were represented dressed in military uniforms. | WIKI |
Palmyra's gods were primarily part of the northwestern Semitic pantheon, with the addition of gods from the Mesopotamian and Arab pantheons. | WIKI |
[412] Palmyrenes worshiped regional deities, including the greater Levantine gods Astarte, Baal-hamon, Baalshamin and Atargatis;[409] the Babylonian gods Nabu and Nergal,[409] and the Arab Azizos, Arsu, xc5xa0ams and Al-lxc4x81t. | WIKI |
The deities worshiped in the countryside were depicted as camel or horse riders and bore Arab names. | WIKI |
[413] The Palmyrene pantheon included ginnaye (some were given the designation "Gad"),[414] a group of lesser deities popular in the countryside,[415] who were similar to the Arab jinn and the Roman genius. | WIKI |
[416] Ginnaye were believed to have the appearance and behavior of humans, similar to Arab jinn. | WIKI |