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Al Khums or Khoms ((アラビア語:الخمس )) is a city, port and capital of Murqub District on the Mediterranean coast of Libya〔Staff (1972) "Al Khums" ''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary'' (3rd ed.) Merriam, Springfield, Mass., p. 33, 〕 with an estimated population of around 202,000.〔 The population at the 1984 census was 38,174.〔(Al Khums Facts )〕 Between 1983 and 1995 it was the administrative center of the Khoms District. ==Etymology== The name ''Al Khums'', ''Khoms'' or sometimes ''Homs'' ((アラビア語:الخُمس ))〔Fisher, Morris (1985) ''Provinces and provincial capitals of the world'' (2nd edition) Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, page 88, ISBN 0-8108-1758-6〕 translated literally to "the quintile" in Arabic.〔https://libyan4native.wordpress.com/%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%85%D8%B3/〕 The origins of the name is not clear, though there are many theories explaining it. The most renowned are: * In Tripolitania the Quinary numeral system was used in contrary to most other Arabs who were using the Decimal system and since Khums and neighbor villages were famous in producing olives and olive oil, they used a lot of counting and so other cities started to call them 'Khumsi' (Quinary) from which the name Khums derived〔 * Some say the name Khums is an Arabic translation to the Greek word Pentapolis which means five cities, but this theory is believed to be false because Pentapolis and it's cities are in Cyrenaica.〔 * Other theory says that the city during 16th century was producing the quintile (20%) of the Ottoman Tripolitania province olive oil.〔 During the Italian occupation of Libya, the city was called Homs in the official Italian sources. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al Khums」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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