As-Safira
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As-Safira (Template:Langx / ALA-LC: as-Safīrah; Aleppo dialect: Sfīre) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate. It is the administrative center of the as-Safira District. As Safīrah has an altitude of Script error: No such module "convert"., and a population of 106,382 since 2007[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., making it the 11th largest city per geographical entity in Syria.
Name
Medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi spells the name Asfīrah[1] (Script error: No such module "Lang".), not as-Safira (Script error: No such module "Lang".), which indicates that the definite article in the modern spelling is a result of hypercorrection.
As-Safira was known in pre-Islamic times as Sipri.[2] Historians[3] have suggested that the name Sipri may have come from the Akkadian word siparru meaning "bronze", which might indicate that copper was mined and bronze was worked there.
History
Since ancient times the city has been the distribution point for salt gathered from the nearby Sabkhat al-Jabbul.
Archeological findings
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Geography
Climate
As-Safira has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification: BSk). Script error: No such module "weather box".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Notes
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- ↑ le Strange, 1890, p. 400
- ↑ Ball, Warwick (2006) "The desert edges" Syria: A Historical And Architectural Guide Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton, Massachusetts, page 157, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Notably Dossin and Lewy, see Sasson, Jack M. (1966) "A Sketch of North Syrian Economic Relations in the Middle Bronze Age" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9(3): pp. 161–181, page 169, note 2
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Bibliography
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