Arka

Arqa (Arabic: عرقا, romanized: ʿArqā; Akkadian: 𒅕𒋡𒋫, romanized: Irqata) is a Lebanese village near Miniara in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, 22 km northeast of Tripoli, near the coast.

Garin ya kasance sanannen birni a lokacin Iron Age . Birnin Irkata ya aika da sojoji 10,000 zuwa hadin gwiwa a kan sarkin Assuriya a Yaƙin Qarqar . Tsohon bishopric ya zama Katolika mai suna sau biyu (Latin da Maronite). An haifi Sarkin sarakuna na Roma Alexander Severus a can. Yana da mahimmanci ga Tell Arqa, wani shafin binciken archaeological wanda ya koma zamanin Neolithic, kuma a lokacin Crusades akwai wani muhimmin gidan sarauta.[1]

 Sunayen 
An ambaci shi a zamanin d ̄ a a cikin wasiƙun Amarna na Masar- (a matsayin Irkata), da kuma a cikin takardun Assuriya. 

An kira garin Roman Kaisariya-ad-Libanum (na Lebanon / Phoenicia) ko Arca Kaisariya . 

 Tarihi 

 Farko na tagulla 
A cikin Farkon Bronze IV, Filin Akkar yana da manyan shafuka uku a Tell Arqa, Tell Kazel, da Tell Jamous .  An mayar da hankali ga al'adu zuwa kudu da kudancin Levant, amma yanzu ya canza tare da ƙarin tasiri daga Inner Syria da amfani da jan ƙarfe.

 Bronze na Tsakiya 
A cikin MB I Akkar Plain har yanzu ya ga an kara ƙananan ƙauyuka kusa da Tell Arqa kuma yankin ya kai mafi yawan jama'a a cikin MB II.

 Ƙarshen tagulla 

 Amarna Lokacin Irkata (c. 1350 BC) 
Arqa tana da bambancin kasancewa birni-jiha wanda ya rubuta ɗaya daga cikin wasiƙu 382 na Amarna ga Fir'auna na Misira ta Dā.

Birnin Irqata shine birni na uku na wasikun Rib-Hadda, (wasikun 68), waɗanda suka kasance na ƙarshe game da mamayar  (H) Apiru. Sumur (u) - (Zemar) ita ce birni na biyu da aka riƙe ban da Byblos na Rib-Hadda, (mai suna Gubla).  A ƙarshe, an kashe sarkin Irqata, Aduna tare da sauran sarakunan birni, da kuma 'mayor' na Gubla, Rib-Hadda. Ɗan'uwan Rib-Hadda, Ili-Rapih, ya zama magajin gari na Gubla, kuma Gubla bai taɓa fadawa Hapiru ba.

A lokacin da Rib-Hadda ta yi tsayayya da Habiru, har ma da birnin Irqata da dattawa, sun rubuta wa Fir'auna Akhenaton na Masar don taimako.  (Amarna)" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="EA (el Amarna)">EA 100, EA don Amarna).

Taken wasikar: "birni Irqata ga sarki".

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