Orontes
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Place Type
river
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 35.2728339° Long. 36.4825754°3
Attestation
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"Orontes River" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 22, 23, 196, 229, 270, 396, map: Map I A2, II A2, V.
- 2 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Orontes.
- 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658560," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 193.
- 5 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 257, 258.
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: IV, pp: 76.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Orontes” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/147.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Orontes.” 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/147.About this Entry
Entry Title: Orontes
Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:
- 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 and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Orontes”
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 Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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