AMADIA, AMADIAH, AMADIEH, AMADEEYAH:
By: Herman Rosenthal
A town in Asiatic Turkey, vilayet of Bagdad, north of Mosul, the birthplace of the pseudo-Messiah, David Alrui (Alroy). In 1163, according to the author of "'Emeḳ ha-Baka," it had a Jewish population of about a thousand families. In 1895 it had a Jewish population of 1,900 persons, who owned about 150 houses. They trade chiefly in gall-nuts.
Bibliography:
- Joseph ha-Kohen, 'Emeḳ ha-Baka (German translation by M. Wiener), p. 27, Leipsic, 1858;
- Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, ii. 141;
- Entziklopedicheski Slovar, vol. i., St. Petersburg, 1891;
- Longman's Gazetteer, London, 1895.
