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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 25277642, member: 99456&quot;]Here are a couple of references that may highlight that there are two cities possible:</p><p>- Chalkis in Chalcidice ad Belum (near Beroea)</p><p>- Chalkis under Libanos</p><p>although it seems most have sided with the first of these town.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It is not clear whether coinage from the early second century a.d. that is inscribed ΦΛ XAΛKIΔεωN should be attributed to this city (Chalkis in Chalcidice ad Belum) or to CHALKIS under Libanos.&quot;</p><p>-<a href="https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/RedSea/RedSea-Cohen2006.pdf#page=158" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/RedSea/RedSea-Cohen2006.pdf#page=158" rel="nofollow">Cohen 2006, 143</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Coinage inscribed ΦΛ XAΛKIΔεωN with an era beginning in 92 a.d. (when the town would also have received the title “Flavia”) has usually been assigned to Chalkis on Belos; see, for example, Head, HN 2, 778; Hunter. Coll., 3: 140–41, nos.1–7; Wroth, BMC Galatia, etc., liv–lv, 147–48, nos. 1–9; SNG (Cop) Syria: Cities 65–66; SNG Schweiz II 187–88; and followed, for example, by A. H. M. Jones ( JRS 21 [1931] 267 and n. 10, “attributed on technical grounds to Chalcis ad Belum”). However, Wroth also considered the possibility that some of the coins could be assigned to CHALKIS under Libanos. Schürer (History2, 1: 573 and n. 68) likewise expressed reservations about the attribution to Chalkis on Belos. Sartre (Alexandre, 515 and n.231), in fact, opted for Chalkis under Libanos.&quot;</p><p>-<a href="https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/RedSea/RedSea-Cohen2006.pdf#page=159" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/RedSea/RedSea-Cohen2006.pdf#page=159" rel="nofollow">Cohen 2006, p 144</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The site of Chalcis ad Belum/Qinnasrin lies under the modern village of al-‘Is, 25km south-west of Aleppo. It is located in the foothills of the easternmost part of the calcareous massif of northern Syria, thus in a zone between ploughed areas in the north-west and steppe lands in the south-east.</p><p><br /></p><p>Qinnasrin, which has been the traditional name of the site since the Aramaic period, was renamed Chalcis when Seleucos Nikator founded a garrison town there. It continued to have this function until the end of its existence. From the time of Pliny, the region of Chalcis, the Chalcidene, was described as the most fertile region in Syria, and the Roman highway from Antioch to Beroea passed through it. Despite its importance, Chalcis is a city with almost no history during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520241480/the-hellenistic-settlements-in-syria-the-red-sea-basin-and-north-africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520241480/the-hellenistic-settlements-in-syria-the-red-sea-basin-and-north-africa" rel="nofollow">Cohen 2006: 143-145</a>). The size and significance of the city increased during late antiquity, and it is well known as a center of early Christianity and the chief town of the district of <i>Syria Prima</i>. It was then a stronghold against Persian attacks (Bowersock 2002).&quot;</p><p>-Marie-Odile Rousset. <a href="https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00914991/document" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00914991/document" rel="nofollow">Chalcis/Qinnasrin: from Hellenistic city to the jund capital of North Syria</a>. Roger Matthews and John Curtis, with Michael Seymour, Alexandra Fletcher, Alison Gascoigne, Claudia Glatz, St John Simpson, Helen Taylor, Jonathan Tubb and Rupert Chapman (eds).&nbsp; Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12-16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London. Volume 2 Ancient &amp; Modern Issues in Cultural Heritage Colour &amp; Light in Architecture, Art &amp; Material Culture Islamic Archaeology, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp.552, 2012.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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