Er-Ramthaniyye
Er-Ramthaniyye
رﻣﺴﺎﻧﻴﺔ or اﻟﺮﻣﺜﺎﻧﻴﺔ | |
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Village | |
 Ruins at Er-Ramthaniyye | |
  Er-Ramthaniyye | |
| Coordinates: 33°1′18″N 35°48′20″E / 33.02167°N 35.80556°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Destroyed | 1967 |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,304 |
Er-Ramthaniyye (Arabic: رﻣﺴﺎﻧﻴﺔ or اﻟﺮﻣﺜﺎﻧﻴﺔ),[1] or Ramsaniyye is a former Syrian village located in the Golan Heights.[2]
History
[edit]In CE 377, a sanctuary for John the Baptist was established inside a monastery at Er-Ramathiniyye.[3] The sanctuary was often visited by Ghassanids,[4] and the village had annual celebrations for the Baptist.[5]
Christians inhabited Ramthaniyye in the Roman and Byzantine eras.[6] Excavations have revealed a chapel, burial cave and sherds from the Late Roman era.[7] Christian Greek inscriptions and tombstones from the Byzantine period with Greek inscriptions have also been discovered.[8] No remains from other religious groups have been found.[6]
The village was inhabited during the Ottoman era.[9] Gottlieb Schumacher visited the site in the 1880s and documented crosses, ornaments and Greek inscriptions.[10]
After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[11][12] Ramthaniyye was destroyed in 1967.[13] The population before the war was 1304.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Murphy, Ray; Gannon, Declan (2008). "Changing the Landscape: Israel's Gross Violations of International Law in the Occupied Syrian Golan" (PDF). al-Marsad. p. 68.
- ^ "Golan Heights and vicinity : October 1994". The Library of Congress. 1994-01-01. Retrieved 2024-08-31. (Ar Ramthaniyye shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
- ^ Sivan 2008, pp. 102–103
- ^ Sivan 2008, p. 99
- ^ Sivan 2008, pp. 103
- ^ a b Gregg, Robert C. (2000). "Marking Religious and Ethnic Boundaries: Cases from the Ancient Golan Heights". Church History. 69 (3). American Society of Church History, Cambridge University Press: 533. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3169396. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
- ^ Syon & David 2023, pp. 155
- ^ Syon & David 2023, pp. 155
- ^ Syon & David 2023, pp. 155
- ^ Schumacher, Gottlieb (1888). The Jaulân: Surveyed for the German Society for the Exploration of the Holy Land. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. 231-235.
- ^ Shai (2006). "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel, 1965-1969". History and Memory. 18 (2): 100–101. doi:10.2979/his.2006.18.2.86.
- ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 55–56
- ^ a b "al-Marsad" (PDF). p. 6. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
Bibliography
[edit]- Sivan, Hagith (2008). Palestine in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191608674.
- Sulimani, Gideon; Kletter, Raz (2022). "Settler-Colonialism and the Diary of an Israeli Settler in the Golan Heights: The Notebooks of Izhaki Gal". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 21 (1). Edinburgh University Press: 48–71. doi:10.3366/hlps.2022.0283. ISSN 2054-1988.
- Syon, Danny; David, Chaim Ben (2023). "A Boundary Stone from Kafr Nafaḥ and the Preservation of Ancient Place Names in the Northern and Central Golan Heights". 'Atiqot / עתיקות. 110. Israel Antiquities Authority / רשות העתיקות: 149–158. ISSN 0792-8424. JSTOR 27204906. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
External links
[edit]- الرمثانية".. آثار الأرض البركانية - Interview with the Director of the Quneitra Antiquities Department about Er-Ramthaniyye
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