Ἄμανος (Amanos)

Ἄμανος means “Mt Amanus — the range between Cilicia and Syria”.

Ancient Greek word, found 51 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pompey 39.2: χειρωσάμενος δὲ διʼ Ἀφρανίου τοὺς περὶ Ἀμανὸν Ἄραβας καὶ καταβὰς αὐτὸς εἰς Συρίαν, ταύτην μὲν ὡς οὐκ ἔχουσαν γνησίους βασιλεῖς ἐπαρχίαν ἀπέφηνε καὶ κτῆμα τ …

Strabo, Geography 16.2.1: ̔η δὲ Συρία πρὸς ἄρκτον μὲν ἀφώρισται τῇ Κιλικίᾳ καὶ τῷ Ἀμανῷ· ἀπὸ θαλάττης δʼ ἐπὶ τὸ ζεῦγμα τοῦ Εὐφράτου στάδιοί εἰσιν οἱ τὸ λεχθὲν πλευρὸν ἀφορίζοντες οὐκ ἐλάττους τῶν χ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.122: … ν οἱ γῆν τινα καταλαβόντες. Ἰαφθᾶ μὲν οὖν τοῦ Νώχου παιδὸς ἦσαν ἑπτὰ υἱοί. κατοικοῦσι δὲ οὗτοι ἀπὸ Ταύρου καὶ Ἀμάνου τῶν ὀρῶν ἀρξάμενοι καὶ προῆλθον ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς Ἀσίας ἄχρι ποταμοῦ Τανάιδος, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἕως Γαδείρων γῆν …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.