Maragha — ܡܪܐܓܗ
https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/129
A city south of
Tabriz.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
Descriptions
“ܐܰܬܪܐ ܕܰܛܒܺܝܒ ܒܰܡܕܝ̈ܢܳܬܐ ܕܰܐܕܘܪܒܰܝܓܰܐܢ ܠܬܰܝܡܢ
ܬܶܒܪܝܙ ܘܰܠܡܰܕܢܚܐ ܕܝܰܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܺܝܐ.” 2
“بلدة اشهر مدن اذربيجان جنوبي تبريز وشرقي بحيرة
اورمية.” 3
“وأعطى مهنّا عراق العراق، وأعطى قراسنقور مدينة مراغة من عراق العجم، وتسمى دمشق الصغيرة، وأعطى الأفرم همدان.” 9
“a most famous town of
Azerbayjan, south of
Tabriz and east of Lake
Urmiya.” 4
A town of Adharbayjan.
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"Maragheh" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 55, 61, map: Map II D1.
- 2 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 561.
- 3 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 519.
- 4 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 556.
- 5 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 16, 17, 18, 184, 322-323.
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: V, pp: 109.
- 7 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 271.
- 9 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 94.
- 10 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2733333," iDAI.gazetteer
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” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/129.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Maragha — ܡܪܐܓܗ .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/129.About this Entry
Entry Title: Maragha — ܡܪܐܓܗ
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson, David A. Michelson, and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Maragha — ܡܪܐܓܗ ”
Additional Credit:
- Research on coordinates by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson