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Hama

(hä′mä)

city in W Syria: pop. 229,000

in the Bible, called Hamath

See Hama in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or Ha·mah

A city of western Syria south-southwest of Aleppo. Settled probably in the Bronze Age, it was a Hittite center in the second millennium B.C. and is frequently mentioned in the Bible as Hamath. Population: 348,000.

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