Gerrha and it's neighbors in 001 AD.

Gerrha (Arabic جرحاء), was an ancient city of Arabia, on the west side of the Persian Gulf. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-jazīra al-ʻarabīya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al-ʻarab) The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region is an extension of the More accurately, the ancient city of Gerrha has been determined to have existed near or under the present fort of Uqair. Uqair is an ancient fort of Islamic origin located in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. This fort is 50 miles northeast of Al-Hasa in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. This article refers to the traditional region of Al-Hasa For the current Saudi Arabian administrative unit sometimes called Al-Hasa see Al-Ahsa (governorate. This site was first proposed by Major R. E. Cheesman CBE in 1924. Major Robert Ernest Cheesman CBE (1878 - February 13 1962 was a military officer Explorer and Ornithologist. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Gerrha and Uqair are archaeological sites on the eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula only 60 miles from the ancient burial grounds of Dilmun on the island of Bahrain. (The Gulf in Antiquity, Vol. II. Potts, p. 56, Looking for Dilmun, Geoffrey Bibby, p. 7).

Prior to Gerrha, the area belonged to the Dilmun civilization, which was conquered by the Assyrian Empire in 709 BC. Dilmun (sometimes transliterated Telmun) is a land mentioned by Mesopotamian Civilizations as a trade partner source of raw material copper and Entrepot Early history The most Neolithic site in Assyria is at Tell Hassuna, the center of the Hassuna culture Gerrha was the center of an Arab kingdom from approximately 650 BC to circa 300 AD (See references). The kingdom was attacked by Antiochus III the Great in 205-204 BC, though it seems to have survived. Antiochus III the Great, ( Greek; ca 241&ndash187 BC ruled 222&ndash187 BC younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus It's currently unknown exactly when Gerrha fell, but the area was under Sassanid Persian control after 300 AD. The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty or Sassanian Dynasty (ساسانیان) is the name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Persian empire

Gerrha was described by Strabo (Bk. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. xvi. ) as inhabited by Chaldean exiles from Babylon, who built their houses of salt and repaired them by the application of salt water. Chaldea (from Greek grc Χαλδαία Chaldaia; Akkadian akk māt Kaldu Hebrew כשדים Kaśdim, "the Chaldees" of the Babylon was a City-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq Pliny (lust. Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, ( AD 23 – August 25, AD 79 better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Author Nat. vi. 32) says it was 5 miles in circumference with towers built of square blocks of salt.

Various identifications of the site have been attempted, JPB D'Anville choosing El Katif, Carsten Niebuhr preferring Kuwait and C Forster suggesting the ruins at the head of the bay behind the islands of Bahrain. Carsten Niebuhr or Karsten Niebuhr ( March 17, 1733 &ndash April 26, 1815) was a German Mathematician, The Kingdom of Bahrain (in مملكة البحرين,, literally Kingdom of the Two Seas) is an Island country in the Persian Gulf

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