Hierapolis Euphratensis
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Manbij منبج Minbic |
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 Manbij
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| Coordinates: 36°31′41″N 37°57′17″E / 36.52806°N 37.95472°E | |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | Aleppo Governorate |
| District | Manbij |
| Subdistrict | Manbij |
| Elevation | 460 m (1,510 ft) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 74,575 |
Manbij (Arabic: منبج, Kurdish: Minbic, Adyghe: Mumbuj, Syriac: ܡܒܘܓ) is a city in the Aleppo Governorate, Syria, 30 kilometers west of the Euphrates. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Manbij had a population of nearly 100,000. The residents of Manbij are ethnically diverse, including Kurds, Arabs, Circassians and Chechens, and many practice Naqshbandi Sufism. As a preliminary result of the ongoing Syrian Civil War, Manbij is currently situated in Shahba region within the de facto autonomous Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava framework.
Coins struck at the city before Alexander's conquest record the Aramean name of the city as Mnbg (meaning spring site). For the Assyrians it was known as Nappigu (Nanpigi). The place appears in Greek as Bambyce and Pliny (v. 23) tells us its Syrian name was Mabog (also Mabbog, Mabbogh). As a center of the worship of the Syrian goddess Atargatis, it became known to the Greeks as the Ἱερόπολις (Hieropolis) 'city of the sanctuary', and finally as Ἱεράπολις (Hierapolis) 'holy city'.
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