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Pentapolis Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
... The term “Pentapolis” (union of five towns) originally designated Palestine at the time of Abraham (Wis 10, 6). In Byzantine Italy (6th-8th cc.), the capital of the Pentapolis was Rimini. This province, which comprised the episcopal towns of the coast ( Pesaro , Fano, Senigallia, Ancona and Numana), was included in a decapolis on which depended Urbino , Fossombrone, Cagli, Iesi, Osimo and Gubbio. A letter of Pope Adrian I ( 775 ) indicates its frontiers: “from Rimini to Gubbio”. Occupied in 752 by the Lombards , it was included in ...
Pentapolis Reference library
Thomas S. Brown and R. Bruce Hitchner
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... (Πεντάπολις, “Five Cities”), name applied to two groups of cities, one in Italy, the other in North Africa. Pentapolis in Italy Pentapolis in North Africa Pentapolis in Italy , a military province in Italy established in the late 6th C. incorporating parts of the civil provinces of Flaminia and Picenum and ruled by a dux based in Rimini. It extended from the river Marecchia north of Rimini to the river Musone south of Osimo; in the west its probable boundary was the Apennine watershed, although it included part of the road corridor south to Rome...
Pentapolis ((African)) Reference library
Joyce Maire Reynolds
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... (African) , the five Greek cities of central Roman Cyrenaica (the northern Gebel Akhdar and its coastal fringe), Cyrene (Shahat), with (from east to west) Apollonia or Sozusa in late antiquity (Marsa Susa), Ptolemais/Barca (Tolmeita), Taucheira (Tocra), for a time called Arsinoe, Berenice ( a ) (Benghazi), originally Euesperides. The name, first attested c. ad 79 (Plin. HN 5. 31), must post-date the creation of the fifth city by promotion of the dependent ‘Port of Cyrene’ to be the city of Apollonia, perhaps early in the 1st cent. bc ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
...Pentapolis Per n pen'tapǝˌlɪs sp Pantapoles 1 , Penlapolis 1 , Pentapolis 3 rh this Per 3.Chorus.34 ...
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Pericles Reference library
Sonia Massai and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Pericles receives word of Thaliard’s mission and decides to resume his travels, which are brought to an end by a sea-storm. Pericles suffers shipwreck and is cast ashore near Pentapolis among fishermen. After offering Pericles food and shelter, they recover his father’s armour from the sea. Pericles decides to wear it and take part in a joust which Simonides, King of Pentapolis, has organized to test the valour of his daughter’s suitors. 6 The joust is preceded by a parade and the interpretation of the emblematic shields and mottoes carried by the six...
Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel Reference library
Lawrence E. Stager
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...territory controlled by the pentapolis, finally completing the Israelite “conquest” of Canaan. Philistine Pottery The most ubiquitous and most distinctive element of Philistine culture, and a key in delineating the stages summarized above, is their pottery. The Myc IIIB pottery of the Late Bronze Age was imported into the Levant, whereas all the Myc IIIC wares found in the pentapolis in the early Iron Age were...
“There Was No King in Israel”: The Era of the Judges Reference library
Jo Ann Hackett
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...coast, including the Syrian city of Ugarit and its port at Ras Ibn Hani—but they were defeated by Rameses III's troops about 1175 bce in a land and sea battle. The Philistines remained in the area of southern Canaan where they had already established themselves, centered on a pentapolis (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza) headed by five what the Bible calls serānîm, “lords” (a word perhaps related to Greek tyrannos ). From there they prospered and grew, until by the second half of the eleventh century they had become a threat to their eastern...
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