Ḥawrān — ܚܘܪܢ
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Ḥawrān; ܚܘܪܢ; ܚܰܘܪܢ; حوران; Hawran; حَوران; Ḥaurān
A region of southern Syria bounded to the east by the volcanic massif of the D̲j̲abal al-Durūz, to the north by the plateau of the Lad̲j̲āʾ and the Damascus plain, to the west by D̲j̲awlān [q.v.] and to the south by the Yarmūk, a region which | corresponds roughly to the administrative area, or liwāʾ , of the same name and which extends for about 100 kilometres from north to south and 75 from east to west.
A region south of Damascus and east of the Sea of Galilee.
ثم ارتحلنا منها إلى بلدة زرعة وهي صغيرة من بلاد حوران نزلنا بالقرب منها ثم ارتحلنا إلى مدينة بُصرى، وهي صغيرة ومن عادة الركب أن يقيم بها أربعا ليلحق بهم من تخلف بدمشق لقضاء مآربه - وإلى بُصرى وصل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل البعث في تجارة خديجة، وبها مبرك ناقته قد بنى عليه مسجد عظيم
location: 32.75 36.25
event: 1224/1228
Attestation of name حَوران in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
state: -0030 – 2013
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/214
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/214
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041
identifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauran
identifier: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hauran
identifier: http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=H&sK=Hawran&sT=keywords
The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 86, 425 Map II A2
ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 537
كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 505
The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 552
The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Hawran
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041 Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.
Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī II 364
Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār Ibn Baṭṭūta 125, 126
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman