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Amadia, Amadiah, Amadieh, Amadeeyah
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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A town in Asiatic Turkey, vilayet of Bagdad, north of Mosul, the birthplace of the pseudo-Messiah, David Alrui (Alroy). In 1163, according to the author of "'Emeḳ ha-Baka," it had a Jewish population of about a thousand families. In 1895 it had a Jewish population of 1,900 persons, who owned about 150 houses. They trade chiefly in gall-nuts.
Bibliography:
- Joseph ha-Kohen, 'Emeḳ ha-Baka (German translation by M. Wiener), p. 27, Leipsic, 1858;
- Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, 2:141;
- Entziklopedicheski Slovar, vol. , St. Petersburg, 1891;
- Longman's Gazetteer, London, 1895.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Amadia, Amadiah, Amadieh, Amadeeyah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/a/amadia-amadiah-amadieh-amadeeyah.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Amadia, Amadiah, Amadieh, Amadeeyah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/a/amadia-amadiah-amadieh-amadeeyah.html. 1901.
