Arvad, Arad
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(place of wanderers, fugitives) (Ezek. 27:8–11), also called Arpad and Arphad, and by the Turks Ruad — a city, according to Strabo, built by fugitive Sidonians, in Phoenicia, on the island of the same name, near the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, twenty or thirty English miles north of Tripoli. In antiquity it was a wealthy Phoenician city, and especially flourished under the Seleucids. It was afterward destroyed by the general of Muawiyah [under Umar (Omar)], and never rose again. It is now a small, poor settlement, consisting of ruins.