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Generally denoting the Persian province of Elam (). It occurs in two places (I Macc. 6:1; Josephus, "Ant." 12:9, § 1) as the name of a rich city besieged by Antiochus Epiphanes. But the other historians who relate this event do not mention any town of this name. The existence of such a town has been denied, the name in I Macc. I being explained (see Vaihinger in Herzog's "Real-Encyc." 3:749) as a mistranslation of an original "be-'Elam ha-Medinah" (comp. Syriac and Arabic versions). On the Talmudical identified with Elymais, see Neubauer, "Géographie du Talmud," p. 381.