Emesa — ܚܡܨ
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A “town in Syria (36° E. and
34° 20′ N.) 500 m above sea level on the eastern bank of the Orontes (Nahr
al-ʿĀṣī), in the centre of a vast cultivated plain which is bounded in the
east by the desert and in the west by volcanic mountains.” 11
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
Descriptions
“وتدمر وسلمية وهما من عمل حمص” 8
“City in Syria.” 1
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Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 H. Takahashi, "259. Ḥimṣ," The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 196-197.
- 2 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 5, 42 (fig. 15), 59, 62, 77, 87, 103, 110, 111, 117, 130, 155, 163, 178, 196–197, 208, 234, 270, 313, 342–343, 353, 360, 389, 393, 425, map: Map I B2, II A2, V.
- 3 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 539.
- 4 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 507.
- 5 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 553.
- 6 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Homs, Emesa.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 347.
- 8 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 9 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 255-259.
- 10 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 83, 84, 94, 664, 665.
- 11 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 12 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668261," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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- 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 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