Talk:Aqaba

message: Aqaba/Ayla as an ancient trade port: There is considerable information. Food is a major trade item and in recent years so-called Aqaba-Ayla late Roman amphorae have appeared in a wide range of places: Red seas littoral, Eretrian & Ethiopian sites, those in Western India and now a new one in Oman. Source: M. Raith – R. Hoffbauer – H. Euler – P. Yule – K. Damgaard, The view from Ẓafār – an archaeometric study of the Aqaba late Roman period pottery complex and distribution in the 1st millennium CE, Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 6, 2013, 320–50, ISBN 978-3-11-019704-4.
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message: it "Resembles" ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.189.255.68 (talk) 22:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: photo caption of photo of flagpole doesn't make sense

message: "The Ptolemaic Greeks called it Berenice, and the Romans Aila and Aelana."
The ruins of Ayla (unearthed in the 1980s by an American-Jordanian archeological team) are a few minutes walk north along the main waterfront road."
Are these the same place? --babbage 11:45, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  spelling of "Aila" 

message: I have restored the quotation from 1 Kings 9:26 to talk about "Eloth" rather than "Ayla", backing out a change that was part of a contribution made by  in August 2010 .
Various versions of the text can be browsed at .
The KJV , JPS 1917 , and NASB  all have "Eloth"; the NIV has "Elath" , which is also found in some other verses -- see eg the entry in Strong's concordance .  The two are probably plural and singular variants of the same name.
The literal Hebrew is aleph-lamed-vav-tav ; in present-day use tav is pronounced with a hard 't', rather that 'th', so that's why the new Israeli city was called "Eilat" rather than "Eilath".
In the Greek of the Septuagint it gets rendered Ailath (Αιλαθ) , and in the Latin of the Vulgate becomes Ahilam , the nominative form Ahila presumably just being a variant of what would at that time have been the contemporary Aila or Ayla as mentioned in the article.
Given the above, while the Vulgate does use a variant of Ayla, it seems more appropriate for our quote to use Eloth, being the form used by most English translations and closer to the original Hebrew.  Jheald (talk) 18:02, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ayla and Elath 

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message: "the Hejaz railway in 1908, connecting the port to Damascus and Medina.[33]"? In the "Hejaz railway" article there is no connection with Aqaba.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.227.73.176 (talk) 17:38, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct, and the source doesn't say it either. Probably the intended meaning is that material from the port could be transported overland to the railway and via the railway to Damascus or Medina.  That would have been a much easier journey in total than before the railway was built.  But we can't use this without a proper source. Zerotalk 02:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aqaba railway? 

message: We need a definition for what we're talking about. As of now, we have a hodgepodge of sites. Elath is not Tell el-Kheleifeh and might or might not be at the site of Roman Aila (the Early Muslim fortified settlement is for instance outside & south of it). Good that nobody added Ezion Geber to the stew.
The "Beach of History" source is far below standard, needs to be replaced along with that entire material - and has special technical demands, without which it doesn't open.
WP-standard, reliable sources are urgently and sorely needed. Arminden (talk) 18:01, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Near East periods 

message: If the city has “multiple Christian schools,” what is the justification for mentioning just one of them?  If that school has some special status there should be text about it.  Otherwise, name either all of them or none of them. 伟思礼 (talk) 22:51, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious schools 

message: 20 miles apart but only 7 miles by great circle route? That's absurd. 2600:100B:B134:22FA:0:3:E248:BA01 (talk) 02:16, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Google says 25km by road and 13km in a straight line. Zerotalk 03:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The article states 30km and 13km "great circle distance" but does not specify road and straight-line. First, at that short distance the difference between straight line (on a map) and great circle (straight line on the surface of a sphere) is practically zero.  I could edit the article myself but in addition to deleting the great circle reference as misleading and superfluous I would need to know whether the distance is being measured from the centers of the runways, closest points on the property lines, or closest points of the controlled airspace. Suggestions? 2600:100B:B134:22FA:0:3:E248:BA01 (talk) 17:12, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  I rewrote that passage based on the sources. Zerotalk 10:29, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you.  Off subject, but the comment regarding the statement about Nabatean influence in the history/Roman period does indeed deserve discussion.  I know it belongs in the Petra article but I know from personal experience that you can walk around Petra and see a striking and obvious difference between the Nabatean (building fronts? monuments? structures?) artifacts and the Roman artifacts. Nabateans had strictly geometric, often stair-step, ornamentation where the Romans used fauna-flora likenesses. It's apparent that the Romans built their own stuff while leaving the Nabatean stuff alone. I have yet to see an adequate analysis of what was obvious to me. 2600:100B:B134:22FA:0:3:E248:BA01 (talk) 17:01, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aqaba airport distance to Ramon