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In Mika Waltari's novel 'The Egyptian', it appears that this is the city he calls Smyrna. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.66.251.69 (talk) 20:15, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move Proposal

I suggest that this article should be moved to "Sumur" or "Simirra." The place is not called "Zemar" in modern scholarship. Alephb (talk) 20:30, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, given how infrequently anyone works on this article, I think I'll move it myself, to "Sumur (Levant)", to avoid problems with the disambig page. For the rationale, a quick comparison of Google Books searches for "Zemar" or "Sumur" should do the trick." Sumur shows relevant modern scholarship, "Zemar" brings up a bunch of irrelevant stuff plus some really old stuff. Similarly, compare a JSTOR search for "Zemar" to "Sumur" -- Sumur has over ten times as many results. Another option is a Google Books search for "Zemar Amarna", which gives 319 results, verses "Sumur Amarna" which gives 2,680. Likewise, the first page of the "Zemar Amarna" search shows mostly century old-scholarship (including recent reprints of century-old scholarship, which have deceptively recent dates), while "Sumur Amarna" shows plenty of up-to-date work.

If I miss anything in the post-move cleanup, please let me know. Alephb (talk) 20:46, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]