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| website = }} Byblos, in Arabic Jubayl ((アラビア語:جبيل) Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: (:ʒbejl)), is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. It is believed to have been occupied first between 8800 and 7000 BC, and according to fragments attributed to the semi-legendary pre-Homeric Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon, it was built by Cronus as the first city in Phoenicia.〔(''The Theology Of The Phœnicians: From Sanchoniatho'' )〕 It is one of the cities suggested as the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world and the site has been continuously inhabited since 5000 BC. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. == Name == ''Gubal'' was a Canaanite city during the Bronze Age, at which time it also appears as ''Gubla'' in the Amarna letters. During the Iron Age the city is called ''Gebal'' in Phoenician () and appears in the Hebrew Bible under the name ''Geval'' ((ヘブライ語:גבל)).〔Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 27:9〕 It was much later referred to as ''Gibelet'', during the Crusades. The city's Canaanite/Phoenician name (''GBL'', i.e. ''Gubal'', ''Gebal'', etc.) can be derived from ''gb'', meaning "well" or "origin", and ''El'', the name of the supreme god of Byblos' pantheon. The present-day city is known by the Arabic name ''Jubayl'' or ''Jbeil'' (جبيل), a direct descendant of the Canaanite name. However, the Arabic name is most likely derived from the Phoenician word ''GBL'' meaning "boundary", "district" or "mountain peak"; in the Ugaritic language ''GBL'' can mean "mountain", similarly to Arabic ''jabal''. The Greek ''Βύβλος'', whence we get our ''Byblos'', was the interpretation of Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (Gebal). Papyrus received its early Greek name ''βύβλος'' (''bublos'') from its importation to the Aegean through this city. The Greek words ''βίβλος. dimunit. βιβλίον'' (''vivlos, vivlion''), plural ''βίβλοι dimunit. βιβλία'' (''vivli, vivlia''), and ultimately the word "Bible" ("the (papyrus) book") hence the Holy Bible, derive from that name. 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「Byblos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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