Amik Valley Explained

Amik Valley
Native Name:Turkish: Amik Ovası
Arabic: ٱلْأَعْمَاق
Alternate Name:
Amuq Valley
Map Type:Turkey#Middle East#Asia
Map Size:200
Location:Hatay, Turkey
Region:Ash-Shaam
Coordinates:36.33°N 36.33°W
Type:Cluster of Tells
Epochs:PPNB, Neolithic
Condition:Ruins
Public Access:Yes

The Amik Valley (Turkish: Amik Ovası;[1] Arabic: ٱلْأَعْمَاق|al-ʾAʿmāq) is a plain in Hatay Province, southern Turkey. It is close to the city of Antakya (Antioch on the Orontes River). Along with Dabiq in northwestern Syria, it is believed to be one of two possible sites of the battle of Armageddon according to Islamic eschatology.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Archaeological significance

It is notable for a series of archaeological sites in the "plain of Antioch".[7] The primary sites of the series are Tell al-Judaidah, Chatal Höyük (Amuq) (not to be confused with Çatalhöyük in Anatolia), Tell Tayinat, Tell Kurdu, Alalakh, and Tell Dhahab.[8] Al-Mina, at the mouth of the Orontes river, was the main ancient port of the area.

Lake Amik was an ancient lake in the area, that was located in the centre of Amik Plain.

Tell Judaidah was surveyed by Robert Braidwood and excavated by C. MacEwan of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in the 1930s.[9] [10]

There is also archaeological evidence for Caspian tigers in this valley (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Vallino and Guazzo Albergoni, 1978).[11]

Islamic eschatology

In a hadith, Abu Hurayrah (a companion of the Islamic Nabi (Prophet) Muhammad) reported that Muhammad said:

Islamic scholars and hadith commentators suggest that the word "Romans" refers to Christians.[12] The hadith further relates the subsequent Muslim victory, followed by the peaceful takeover of Constantinople with invocations of takbir and tasbih, and finally the defeat of the Anti-Christ following the return and descent of Jesus Christ.[13] [14] Other hadiths relate the appearance of Imam Mahdi immediately before the Second Coming of Jesus.[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amik Ovası . www.reyhanli.gov.tr . 3 November 2022.
  2. Web site: MELHAME-İ KÜBRA (ARMAGEDDON) SAVAŞI . 2015-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151212102010/http://www.kerimusta.com/melhame-i-kubra-armageddon-savasi/ . 2015-12-12 . dead .
  3. http://hadislerde-mehdi.blogspot.com.tr/2014/08/melhame-i-kubra-ve-amik-ovas-gercegi.html Amik Ovası ve Armageddon Savaşı
  4. http://www.yeniakit.com.tr/yazarlar/abdurrahman-dilipak/isidin-nihai-hedefi-7940.html IŞİD’in nihai hedefi
  5. Web site: MELHAME-İ KÜBRA / BÜYÜK SAVAŞ . 2015-09-11 . tr . 2018-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180515161111/http://gaybihaberleri.blogspot.com.tr/2013/02/melhame-i-kubra-buyuk-savas.html . dead .
  6. http://www.yazete.com/genc-kalemler/mesut-akbaba/buyuk-savas-melhamei-kubra/2191/ Büyük savaş melhamei kübra
  7. Book: Robert John Braidwood. Richard C. Haines. Linda S. Braidwood. Excavations in the Plain of Antioch. 24 March 2011. 1971. University of Chicago Press. 9780226621982.
  8. Book: Robert John Braidwood. Richard C. Haines. Linda S. Braidwood. Excavations in the Plain of Antioch: The structural remains of the later phases, Chatal Hüyük, Tell Al-Judaidah, and Tell Taʻyinat, by R.C. Haines. 24 March 2011. August 1971. University of Chicago Press. 9780226621982.
  9. Book: Joseph Ward Swain. The ancient world. 24 March 2011. 1950. Harper.
  10. Book: Krijna Nelly Ciggaar . East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the end of the Crusader principality . David Michael Metcalf . Peeters Publishers . 2006 . 9789042917354 . 323– . 24 March 2011.
  11. Book: Masseti, M. . 2009 . https://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/generate_pdf.php?document_id=2126&readonly_preview=1 . Carnivores of Syria . E. Neubert . Z. Amr . S. Taiti . B. Gümüs . Animal Biodiversity in the Middle East. Proceedings of the First Middle Eastern Biodiversity Congress, Aqaba, Jordan, 20–23 October 2008. . . 31 . 229–252 . ZooKeys 31: 229–252 . 10.3897/zookeys.31.170. free .
  12. Book: Farzana Hassan. Prophecy and the Fundamentalist Quest: An Integrative Study of Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Religion. 15 Jan 2008. McFarland. 9780786480791. 41. illustrated.
  13. Book: Farzana Hassan. Prophecy and the Fundamentalist Quest: An Integrative Study of Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Religion. 15 Jan 2008. McFarland. 9780786480791. 41–2. illustrated.
  14. Book: Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman. The Meaning and Explanation of the Glorious Qur'an (Vol 2). 2009. MSA Publication Limited. 9781861797667. 311–12. 2.
  15. Sonn (2004) p. 209

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