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Sura (city)

Field	Value
official_name	Sura
native_name	סורא
settlement_type
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pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in modern day Iraq
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	[[File:Flag of Iraq.svg	25px]] Iraq
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
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Sura () was a city in the southern part of the area called by ancient Jewish sources Babylonia, located east of the Euphrates. It was well-known for its agricultural produce, which included grapes, wheat, and barley. It was also a major center of Torah scholarship and home of an important yeshiva—the Sura Academy—which, together with the yeshivas in Pumbedita and Nehardea, gave rise to the Babylonian Talmud.

Location

According to Sherira Gaon, Sura () was identical to the town of Mata Mehasya, which is also mentioned in the Talmud, but Mata Mehasya is cited in the Talmud many times, either as a nearby town or a suburb of Sura, and the Talmudist academy in Mata Mehasya served as a branch of Sura Academy, which was founded by Abba Arikha in the third century.

A contemporary Syriac source describes it as a town completely inhabited by Jews, situated between Māḥōzē and al-Hirah in the Sawad. A responsum of Natronai ben Hilai says that Sura was about 6 km from Harta D'Argiz, understood to be al-Hirah.

References

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Gîl, Moše. (2004). "Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages". BRILL.

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