Modern locations of places in the Bible:
Samawah
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| Latitude, Longitude | 31.316667, 45.283333 |
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| Type | settlement |
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| Point Precision | point in modern settlement |
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| General Location Notes | - Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (2010) (Tel Melah): “near a salty tract of terrain in the Persian Gulf”
- Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1894) (page 242): “a city of the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf”
- Blenkinsopp, Ezra-Nehemiah (1988) (page 91): “located in the salt flats near the Persian Gulf according to the geographer Ptolemy”
- Spence, Complete Pulpit Commentary (1919) (Ezr. 2:59): “a city of Lower Babylonia, situated in the salt tract near the Persian Gulf”
- Abshire, Gusev, and Stafeyev, Fertile Crescent in Ptolemey’s Geography (2017) connects Thelme "to the known ruins at Samawah"
- Al-Taie, Shear Strength, Collapsibility and Compressibility Characteristics of Compacted Baiji Dune Soils (2017) (figure 1) shows a sabkha (salt flat) region near the Persian Gulf, south and sotheast of Basra
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Biblical places associated with Samawah
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Credit: Hayderaziz (modified)
