Group
Semites
In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical "Shem", translated as "name") is first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages.
This family includes the ancient and modern forms of; Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Ge'ez, Maltese, Canaanite/Phoenician, Amorite, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Sutean, Chaldean, Mandaic, Ahlamu, Amharic, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.As language studies are interwoven with cultural studies, the term also has come to describe the extended cultures and ethnicities, as well as the history of these varied peoples as associated by close geographic and linguistic distribution.
Member Cities
- 'Amman `Amman Jordan Location
- Acre > 'Akko Israel Israel Location
- Ain Dara temple Halab Syria Location
- Aksum > Axum Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Al-Karak > Kerak Ma`an Jordan Location
- Aleppo > Halab Halab Syria Location
- Amida > Diyarbakir Diyarbakir Turkey Location
- Antioch > Antakya Hatay Turkey Location
- Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece Location
- Babylon Babil Iraq Location
- Beirut > Bayrut Bayrut Lebanon Location
- Beit ed-Dine Mount Lebanon Chouff Lebanon Location
- Byblos > Jubayl Mont-Liban Lebanon Location
- Cyrenaica Libya Location
- Damascus > Dimashq Dimashq Syria Location
- Delos (Dhílos) Island Kikladhes Greece Location
- Ebla Syria Location
- Faiyum > Al-Fayyum Al-Fayyum Egypt Location
- Gezer Israel Israel Location
- Hamadan > Ecbatana Hamadan Iran Location
- Harran > Carrhae Sanliurfa Turkey Location
- Hebron > Al-Khalil West Bank Israel Location
- Isin Iraq Location
- Jerusalem > Yerushalayim Israel Israel Location
- Lagash Dhi Qar Iraq Location
- Latakia > Al-Ladhiqiyah Al-Ladhiqiyah Syria Location
- Ma'rib Ma'rib Yemen Location
- Mari > Tell Hariri Syria Location
- Mount Hermon Syria Location
- Málaga Andalucia Spain Location
- Neville's Cross Durham United Kingdom Location
- Nuzi > Kirkuk At-Ta'mim Iraq Location
- Palmyra > Tudmur Hims Syria Location
- Petra Ma`an Jordan Location
- Rabbah > 'Amman `Amman Jordan Location
- Sidon > Sayda Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Susa Iran Location
- Tripolis > Tarabulus Tarabulus Libya Location
- Tunis Tunis Tunisia Location
- Tyre > Sur Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Zula Northern Red Sea Eritrea Location