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19-419: Maiuma , Maiumas , Maiouma , Maïouma or Maioumas is the name of an ancient festival and related toponyms. Maiuma may refer to: Maiuma (city) , ancient port city of Gaza Maiuma (festival) , ancient water festival dedicated to Dionysus and Aphrodite Other locations [ edit ] Betomarsea-Maiumas, near Charachmoba (today's al-Karak ), known from

38-705: A valley where he completed the ambush, thereby getting revenge for the Nabateans' loss of Gaza . Moab and Gilead , two mountains east of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River , were returned. Around 86 BCE, the Seleucid ruler, Antiochus XII Dionysus , invaded Nabatea. During the Battle of Cana , Antiochus was slain and his demoralized army perished in the desert. The Nabataeans, seeing how Obodas defeated both

57-497: A dependent kōme (dependent settlement of a Greek polis ). During the reign of Constantine the Great , who granted Maiuma the status of a separate city, it received the name Konstanteia after the emperor's sister (or son). It has been suggested that Maiuma's residents "collectively opted to convert to Christianity " or that it made some sort of public declaration of its Christianity. Under Emperor Julian , known as Julian

76-641: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Maiuma (city) A "harbour of Gaza" is first documented in one of the Zenon Papyri , a business letter written in September 258 BCE. In antiquity, Maiuma was one of the two ports of Gaza , serving as the Incense Road 's principal emporium on the Mediterranean. Located near Gaza, it

95-520: The Apostate by Christians, it was downgraded and the name was changed to Maioumas , which can be seen as simply meaning "harbour place", or as "the part of Gaza towards the sea". As a consequence of this, it is associated by some with a pagan festival also called the Maiuma or Maiouma , however others consider the word "maiuma" or "maiouma" to have evolved to cover a much wider set of meanings by

114-636: The Madaba Map Maiumas ( civitas Maiuma Ascalonitis ), the 6th-c. harbour of Ascalon , known from Piacenza Pilgrim 's itinerarium , perhaps today's Khirbat al-Ashraf Maiumas or Kefar Shuni, also Shumi/Shami, later Khirbat Miyāmās, Khirbat al-Shuna , today in Binyamina See also [ edit ] May Day , modern festival; Maiuma was one of its predecessors All pages with titles beginning with Maiuma All pages with titles containing Maiuma Topics referred to by

133-702: The Nabataean spice and incense trade route , dealing in herbs, spices incense, drapery, glass and food. Goods arrived in the port on the backs of camels from Southern Arabia (the Kingdom of Sheba ) through Petra , the Arava Valley and crossing the Negev Desert via Avdat . At the port of Gaza, these goods were dispatched to the European markets. Alexander Jannaeus ' conquest of Gaza that denied

152-511: The Apostate reverted the administrative move, but after his reign Constantine's arrangement was restored, Maiuma eventually becoming the seat of an independent bishop (please mind that the first bishops of Gaza, not Maiuma, also resided at Maiuma). An incomplete list of bishops of Maiuma includes: According to other sources, there is another bishop of Maiuma we know of: Maiuma is identified with al-Mina , about 4 kilometers from Gaza towards

171-648: The Hasmoneans and the Greeks, started to venerate Obodas as a god. Obodas was buried in the Negev , at a place that was renamed in his honour, Avdat . He was succeeded by his brother Aretas III . This article draws heavily on the nl:Obodas I article in the Dutch-language Misplaced Pages, which was accessed in the version of September 15, 2008. This biography of a member of an Asian royal house

190-550: The Nabateans access to the port and trade with Rome led to Obodas launching a military campaign against the Hasmonean king. Maiuma was rebuilt after it was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 63 BCE under the command of Pompey Magnus and trade routes were reopened. Although the town grew to a community of no small importance with a population as high as 9,000 and increasingly sought independence of Gaza, it remained

209-527: The last known bishop of Maiuma, known to have participated in the Synod of Jerusalem of 581 . Mention must also be made of St. Cosmas of Maiuma . The city was famous for the fact that the tomb of a Saint Victor was located there; he had been an Egyptian martyr, but more about his identity is unknown. Severus of Antioch , disicple of Peter the Iberian , founded a monastery in the vicinity of Maiuma around

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228-448: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maiuma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maiuma&oldid=1224360442 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

247-464: The sea. Remarkable archaeological findings from the site include the mosaic floor of the Gaza synagogue representing King David with a lyre, dated to the early 6th century AD and discovered in the mid-1960s. The city appears to have been fortified, but the enclosure wall still seems hard to trace. Obodas I Obodas I ( Nabataean Aramaic : 𐢗𐢃𐢅𐢞 ‎ ʿŌbōdaṯ ; Ancient Greek : Ὀβόδας )

266-418: The time the port near Gaza was given this name, with no Maiuma festival in the original meaning of the word ever taking place there. Following emperors did not reverse Julian's decision, though they allowed Maiuma to maintain an independent bishopric. Maiuma seems to have been an early center of the spread of Christianity, which may explain the treatment of its status by Constantine and Julian. Its population

285-502: The year 500. According to the Life of Severus, written by Zacharias Rhetor , this was done after Severus received a substantial inheritance and the monastery of Peter had been converted from a laura to a coenobium . John Moschus mentions a laura that might be that of Severus in the early seventh century, however, the exact location of the monastery remains unknown. Constantine offered Christian Maiuma independence from pagan Gaza, Julian

304-593: Was a certain Zeno from around 395 to after 400, mentioned by Sozomenus . Among others known are Paulianus (or Paulinianus), participant in the First Council of Ephesus in 431; Paul, who took part in the Second Council of Ephesus in 449; Peter the Iberian who was reluctant to serve in the office but was elected by the citizens in 452 nevertheless; John Rufus , his successor; and Procopius, chronologically

323-572: Was king of the Nabataeans from 96 to 85 BC. After his death, Obodas was worshiped as a deity. Obodas was the successor of Aretas II , from whom he inherited the war with the Hasmonean kingdom . He defeated them around 93 BCE on the Golan Heights . Then he ambushed Alexander Jannaeus near Gadara ( Umm Qais ), just east of the Sea of Galilee . Using camel cavalry , he forced Jannaeus into

342-409: Was said to have been largely Egyptian in origin. Gaza steadfastly held on to its pagan faith and withstood Christian misdionary attempts, and as a result the first bishops of Gaza resided at Maiuma. As the city regained its independence from Gaza, for a certain period of time it had its own bishop, due to Gaza's relatively long resistance to introduction of Christianity. The first known bishop of Maiuma

361-406: Was simply called "the port of Gaza " in many early sources, for instance Strabo and Ptolemy referred to it as Gazaion limen . However, it was distinct from the city, which was located opposite it, and recognised as an independent city since the early Christian era. The Greek name Neapolis ("the new city") seems to have also been used in reference to it. The port of Gaza was at the end of

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