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BEROEA (Ancient city) SYRIA
A town of Syria, now Aleppo or Haleb, near Antioch, and enlarged by Seleucus Nicator, who named it Beroea after the town in Macedon. In the Old Testament it is called Chelbon.
Total results: 18 Berea, 29 Beroea
A leading city of N Syria, on the caravan route between the Euphrates
and the Mediterranean, Beroea was made a Macedonian city by Seleucus Nicator between
301 and 281 B.C. It was sacked by Chosroes in A.D. 540.
The plan of the Macedonian colony survives in the modern city. Traces
of the original grid plan can be seen on the 25 ha area E of the tell: a series
of streets, parallel or at right angles to each other, are oriented to the cardinal
points and laid out with uniform space between them. An avenue 20-25 m wide, now
occupied by souks, cut across the city from W to E, from the W gate to the foot
of the citadel, and a monumental three-bay arch ornamented with military emblems
marked the W exit. Colonnaded porticos were added to the arch probably in the
2d or 3d c. A.D. The agora was precisely in the center of the city, where the
great mosque stands today, at the end of the aqueduct that pipes water from a
spring 13 km to the N.
The wall that ringed the ancient city forms a more or less regular
rectangle, 1000 by 950 m. On the W the rampart, flanked by wide rectangular towers,
ran parallel to the streets; its E face took advantage of the hill of the citadel,
which bears no traces of either the Hellenistic or the Roman periods. The mediaeval
gates are probably where the ancient gates stood.
J. P. Rey-Coquais, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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