Qanawat


For the Damascus municipality, see Qanawat (Damascus).

"Canatha" redirects here. For the genus of moth, see Canatha (moth).

in Suwayda, Syria


















Qanawat
قنوات



Qanawat is located in Syria

Qanawat

Qanawat



Location in Syria



Coordinates: 32°45′20″N 36°37′00″E / 32.75556°N 36.61667°E / 32.75556; 36.61667
Country
 Syria
Governorate
Suwayda
District
Suwayda
Subdistrict
Suwayda
Elevation

1,200 m (3,900 ft)
Population (2004)
 • Total
8,324
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)
+3

Qanawat (Arabic: قنوات‎), is a village in Syria, located 7 km north-east of al-Suwayda. It stands at a height of about 1,200 m, near a river and surrounded by woods. Its inhabitants are entirely from the Druze community.[1] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qanawat had a population of 8,324 in the 2004 census.[2]




Contents





  • 1 History

    • 1.1 Hellenistic and Roman history


    • 1.2 Bishopric


    • 1.3 Islamic history



  • 2 Main sights


  • 3 Gallery of images


  • 4 References


  • 5 Bibliography


  • 6 External links




History




Map of the Decapolis showing the location of Canatha (Qanawat)


Qanawat is one of the earliest cities in the Bashan and Hauran areas. It is probably evidenced in the bible as Kenath (Hebrew: קְנָת, Numbers 32:42, 1 Chronicles 2:23). Possible earlier evidence, is from Ancient Egyptian documents like the Execration texts (second group) of the 20-19th century BC, and the Amarna letters of the 14th century BC (as Qanu, in EA 204).[3][4]



Hellenistic and Roman history




Temple of Rabbos




Sarcophagus in 4th/5th century church


The ancient Hellenistic-Roman city of Canatha (also Kanatha, Κάναθα in Ancient Greek), is mentioned for the first time in the reign of Herod the Great (1st century BC), when Nabatean Arab forces defeated a Jewish army. It remained an issue of contention between the two powers. From Pompey's time until Trajan's, it was a city of the Decapolis, a loose federation of cities allowed by the Romans to enjoy a degree of autonomy. In the 1st century AD it was annexed to the Roman province of Syria, and in the 2nd century it was rechristened Septimia Canatha by Septimius Severus, a Roman colony, and transferred to the province of Arabia.[5]



Bishopric


Only one of the bishops of Canatha is known by name: Theodosius took part in the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449, in the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and in a synod called by Patriarch Gennadius I of Constantinople in 459 against simony.[6][7]


No longer a residential bishopric, Canatha is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[8]



Islamic history


A center of Christianity in the area, Canatha was captured by the Muslim Arabs in 637, and declined in importance until in the 9th century it was reduced to a poor village.


In 1596 Qanawat appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Qada of Hauran. It had a Christian population consisting of 5 households and a Muslim population of 12 households; the inhabitants included a settled group of beduins. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives.[9]





Qanawat in 1900 (Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University)



Main sights


The city's extensive ancient ruins are 1500 m in length and 750 m in breadth. Among them are a Roman bridge and a rock-hewn theatre, with nine tiers of seats and an orchestra nineteen meters in diameter, also a nymphaeum, an aqueduct, and a large prostyle temple with portico and colonnades. North-west of the town is a late 2nd or early 3rd century peripteral temple, built on a high platform surrounded by a colonnade. For years, this temple was believed to honour Helios, but an inscription discovered in 2002 shows that it was dedicated to a local god, Rabbos.[10]


The monument known as Es-Serai (also Seraya, "palace") dates from around the 2nd century AD and was originally a temple, and then, from the 4th/5th centuries, a Christian basilica. It is 22 m long, and was preceded by an outside portico and an atrium with eighteen columns.


The German explorer Hermann Burchardt visited the town in 1895, taking photographs of its antiquities, photographs which are now held in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.[11]



Gallery of images





  • Roman building, Al Quanawat in 2008.







  • Roman building, Al Quanawat in 2008.







  • Window reliefs.







  • Temple of Rabbos, Al Quanawat in 2008.







  • Roman nympheum, Al Quanawat in 2008.







  • Roman tower, Al Quanawat in 2008





References




  1. ^ Betts, 2010, p. 22.


  2. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ Ewing, W (1915). "Kenath". In James Orr (ed.). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2014-05-27.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)


  4. ^ Moran, William L, ed. (2002). The Amarna letters. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 124, 391. ISBN 0801842514.


  5. ^ Burns, 2009, pp. 246-247


  6. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 867-868


  7. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 435


  8. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 857


  9. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 218.


  10. ^ Burns, 2009, p. 249


  11. ^ General view of Qanawat (click on photo to enlarge); Qanawat, Serail (click on photo to enlarge).



Bibliography


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  • Betts, Robert Brenton (2010). The Druze. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300048106.


  • Burns, Ross (2009). The Monuments of Syria. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 0857714899.


  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.



External links





  • Map of the town, Google Maps

Coordinates: 32°45′20″N 36°37′0″E / 32.75556°N 36.61667°E / 32.75556; 36.61667







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