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Palmyra

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A town between Emesa and Dura-Europos.

Names

  • تدمر4, 5
  • تَدْمُر3
  • Hadrianopolis
  • Palmyra1, 2
  • Palmyrenes
  • Palmyrenos
  • Tadmur
  • Thadamora
  • Ἁδριανοπόλις
  • Θαδάμορα
  • Πάλμυρα
  • Παλμυρηνός

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 34.551395750000005° Long. 38.2667172°6
  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 34.56° Long. 38.26722°1

Descriptions

“ثم سافرنا إلى تدمر، مدينة نبي الله سليمان عليه السلام، التي بنتها له الجن، كما قال النّابغة: يبنون تدمر بالصفّاح والعمد.” 5
“وتدمر وسلمية وهما من عمل حمص” 4

Attestation

Attestation of name تَدْمُر in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

تَدْمُر3 3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 29, 363, 425, map: Map I B2.
  • 2 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Palmyra.
  • 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 20.
  • 4 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
  • 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 663.
  • 6 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668331," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Palmyra” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/153.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Palmyra.” 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/153.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Palmyra

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, “Palmyra”

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
  • Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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