The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Arwad

Also known as Aradus

  • island
  • Phoenician, Roman

The small Phoenician island-city Gibbon calls Aradus, modern Arwad, off the Syrian coast. It was a stubborn maritime holdout in the Arab conquest of the seaboard.

Type
island
Style
Phoenician, Roman
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 235
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The small Phoenician island-city Gibbon calls Aradus, modern Arwad, off the Syrian coast. It was a stubborn maritime holdout in the Arab conquest of the seaboard.

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