Arados

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Arados is the ancient name of Arwad, a historic Phoenician island city off the coast of modern-day Syria.

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Label Occurrences
Arados canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Phoenician city
ancient city
archaeological site
historical place
island city
alsoKnownAs Aradus
Arwad
coordinateApprox 34.86°N 35.85°E
country Syria
culture Phoenician culture
distanceFromCoast about 3 kilometers
engagedIn Mediterranean trade
governmentType city-state
hasEconomicActivity commerce
fishing
seafaring
hasFeature acropolis
city walls
harbor
hasIslandType rocky island
heritageDesignation archaeological heritage site of Syria
historicalPeriod Bronze Age
Classical antiquity
Iron Age
knownFor fortifications
maritime trade
naval power
strategic location
language Phoenician language
locatedIn Eastern Mediterranean
Levant region
surface form: Levant

Mediterranean Sea
Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenicia

Tartus
surface form: Tartus Governorate
locatedNear Tartus
locatedOffCoastOf Syria
locatedOn Arwad
surface form: Arwad Island
partOf Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenician city-states

Phoenician civilization
presentDayMunicipality Arwad
surface form: Arwad, Syria
presentDayName Arwad
region Greater Syria
surface form: Syro-Palestine
religion Canaanite religion
subordinateTo Sidon
Tyre
underRuleOf Achaemenid Empire
Byzantine Empire
Hellenistic kingdoms
Roman Empire

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arwad knownAs Arados
Aradus knownInGreekAs Arados
Arvad alsoKnownAs Arados