Arwad

Arwad, yang pada zaman klasik disebut Aradus, adalah sebuah kota-pulau di Suriah di Laut Tengah. Kota tersebut adalah pusat administratif Subdistrik (nahiyah) Arwad, di mana kota tersebut menjadi satu-satunya wilayahnya. Ini adalah satu-satunya pulau berpenghuni di Suriah.

Arwad أرواد
Kota
Citra satelit Arwad
Arwad
Koordinat: 34°51′22″N 35°51′32″E
Negara	Suriah
Kegubernuran	Tartus
Distrik	Tartus
Subdistrik	Arwad
Luas
• Total	0,2 km2 (0,8 sq mi)
Populasi  (Sensus 2004)
• Total	4.403
Zona waktu	UTC+2 (Waktu Eropa Timur)
• Musim panas (DST)	UTC+3 (Waktu Musim Panas Eropa Timur)

Referensi dan sumber

Sumber

• Malcolm Barber, Trial of the Templars
• Martin Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), 359.
• Lawrence I Conrad, ‘The Conquest of Arwād: A Source-critical study in the historiography of the early medieval Near East’, in The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East: Papers of the First Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam, edited by Averil Cameron and Lawrence I Conrad, Studies in late antiquity and early Islam, 1, vol. 1, Problems in the literary source material (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1992), 317-401.
• Alain Demurger, The Last Templar
• Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer, p. 53.
• Lebling, Robert W. 2016. "Arwad, Fortress at Sea". Aramco World. January February 2016. Volume 67, no. 1. Pages 34–41.
• Newman, Sharan (2006). Real History Behind the Templars. Berkley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-425-21533-3.
• Jean Richard, Les Croisades
• Sylvia Schein, "Gesta Dei per Mongolos"
• Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

Pranala luar

• L'île d'Arwad, Suggestion to have Arwad recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site, in 1999
• Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer Diarsipkan 2011-05-14 di Wayback Machine.
• Hundreds of pictures of the island
• Google Earth location
• Small Islands in the Near East
• http://www.tartous-city.com
• Syrian Ministry of Tourism Arwad Regeneration Programme