Danaba
Danaba
A titular see of Phænicia Secunda. Danaba is mentioned by Ptolemy (V, xv, 24) as a town in the territory of Palmyra. According to Peutinger’s table (where it is called Danova) it was a Roman military station between Damascus and Palmyra, twenty miles from Nezala. Danaba figures in an Antiochene “Notitia episcopatuum” of the sixth century as a suffragan of Damascus, and remained so till perhaps the tenth century. Only two bishops are known: Theodore, who attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and subscribed the letter of the bishops of the province to Emperor Leo I in 458, and Eulogius, present at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 (Lequien, Or. Christ., III, 847). Today Danaba is probably represented by Hafer, a village five miles southeast of Sadad, in the vilayet of Damascus. About 300 Jacobite Syrians live there, most of whom have been converted to Catholicism.
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S. PÉTRIDÈS Transcribed by David M. Cheney Dedicated to Ceil Holman (1907-1996), my grandmother.
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Danaba
(), a small town placed by Ptolemy (v. 15, 24) in Palmyrene, a subdivision of his Coele-Syria; also mentioned under the name Danabe in the war between the emperor Julian and the Persians (Zozim. Hist. 3, 27, 7). It does not appear to correspond to any of the three places of a similar name mentioned by Eusebius (, ) and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Damnaba), lying in the region of Moabitis. It- was the seat of a bishopric (Notit. Eccles.), and has lately been identified by Porter (Damascus, 1:346) from an Arabic MS. written in the 7th century by Macarius with Saidnaya, now a large village at the foot of Anti- Lebanon, with a convent and extensive ruins (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 306).