Editing Manbij (section)

==Etymology==
Coins struck at the city before [[Wars of Alexander the Great|Alexander's conquest]] record the [[Aramean]] name of the city as '''Manbug''' (''Mnbg'',{{clarify|date=February 2024}}<!--Aramaic script form?--> "Site of the Spring").<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1aF0hq1GR8C&pg=PA498|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire|author=Trevor Bryce|year=2009|page= 498|isbn=9781134159086}}</ref> For the [[Assyria]]ns it was known as Nappigu or Nanpigi.{{clarify|date=February 2024}}<!--Assyrian script form?--><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBOwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA564|title=On Art in the Ancient Near East Volume I: Of the First Millennium BCE|author=Irene Winter|year=2009|page= 564|isbn=9789047425847}}</ref> Its name was [[hellenization of place names|hellenized]] as '''Bambyce''' ({{langx|grc|Βαμβύκη}}, ''Bambykē''){{clarify|date=February 2024}}<!--where's the accent?--> and recorded by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] as '''Mabog''' ({{langx|syc|ܡܒܘܓ}}, ''Mabbog'' or ''Mabbogh'').<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Nat. Hist.]]'', Book V, §81.</ref>

As the center of the worship of the [[Canaanite religion|Syrian]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Atargatis]], it became known to the Greeks as '''Hieropolis''' ({{lang|grc|Ἱερόπολις}}, ''Hierópolis''), the "City of the Sanctuary", and then as '''Hierapolis''' ({{lang|grc|Ἱεράπολις}}, ''Hierápolis''), the "Holy City".<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Hierapolis|volume=13|pages=451–452|first1=Charles William|last1=Wilson|author1-link=Charles William Wilson|first2=David George|last2=Hogarth|author2-link=David George Hogarth}}</ref>