Dido wanderer". According to Marie-Pierre Noël, "Elishat/Elisha" is a name repeatedly attested on Punic votives. It is composed of the Punic reflex of *ʾil- "god", the remote Phoenician creator god El, also a name for God in Judaism, and "‐issa", which could be either "ʾiš" (𐤀𐤎) means "fire", or another word for "woman". Other works state it is the feminine form of El. In Greek it appears as "Theiossô", which translates Élissa: "el" becoming "theos". This understanding of the chronology related to Dido and her company resulted in the following dates for Dido and her immediate relations, as derived from F.
Dvin (ancient city) produced an abundance of materials, which have shed light into the Armenian culture of the 5th to the 13th centuries. Ancient Armenian literary sources almost always give the name of the ancient city of Dvin as "Dwin" or "Duin". Later authors favored the Dvin appellation, which is the most common form given in scholarly literature. The word is of Middle Iranian origin, and means hill. The ancient city of Dvin was built by Khosrov III Kotak in 335 on a site of an ancient settlement and fortress from the 3rd millennium BC. Since then, the city had been used as