Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ

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A town west of Mosul and east of Mount Sinjar.

Names

  • ܫܝܓܪ
  • ܫܝܓܳܪ2
  • سنجار3, 9, 10, 11, 12
  • سِنْجار8
  • Shiggar1
  • Singar5
  • Singara1
  • Sinjar1, 4
  • Sinjār6

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.321337° Long. 41.859566°7

Descriptions

ܐܰܬܪܐ ܗܘ ܕܒܰܫܦܘܠܳܐ ܕܛܘܪܳܐ ܕܫܝܓܳܪ ܠܡܰܥܪܰܒ ܡܰܘܨܠ ܒܰܝܢܳܬܗܝܢ ܬܠܳܬܐ ܝܰܘܡܝ̈ܢ.2
بلدة في لحف جبل سنجار غربي الموصل بينهما ثلاثة ايام.3
ثمّ رحلنا إلى مدينة سنجار، وهي مدينة كبيرة كثيرة الفواكه والأشجار والعيون المطردة والأنهار12
وسنجار مدينة باثور11
ومن بلد الى نصيبين 5 مراحل ومن الموصل الى سنجار 3 مراحل ومن سنجار الى نصيبين 5 مراحل ومن نصيبين الى راس عين 3 مراحل9
a town situated at the foot of the Sinjar mountain, three days’ journey from Mosul.4

Attestation

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

سِنْجار8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 3, 18, 53, 116, 355, map: Map I C1, II C1.
  • 2 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 557.
  • 3 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 516.
  • 4 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 558.
  • 5 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Singar.
  • 6 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 44, 49, 345, 352.
  • 7 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874699," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: III, pp: 297.
  • 9 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 139.
  • 10 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 240.
  • 11 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 27.
  • 12 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 246.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/184.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ .” 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/184.

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Entry Title: Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ

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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, “Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ

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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Ḥawqal 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

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