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Hamat
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English
Etymology
en ota حمات hamât, from en ar حَمَاة.
Proper noun
en Hama Q173545
en 1888 Abulfeda, Ismail-ibn-Ali Chambers’s Encyclopædia 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZZAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 He ruled from 1310 over the principality of Hamat in Syria, as an independent ally of the sultan, was a generous patron of literature and science, and died in 1331.