Emesa — ܚܡܨ
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Emesa; Ḥimṣ; ܚܡܨ; ܚܡܶܨ; حمص; Ḥomṣ; Homs; حِمْص; Ḥims; Hemesa; Emisenoi; La Chamelle; Hims; Ḥiṃs; Ṣobȧ; Soba; Ḥămȧt; Ḥoms
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.
City in Syria.
وتدمر وسلمية وهما من عمل حمص
location: 34.751899 36.724237
location: 34.730833 36.709444
event: 1224/1228
Attestation of name حِمْص in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
state: 0161–2013
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/215
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/215
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668261
identifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homs
identifier: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Homs
identifier: http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=H&sK=Homs&sT=keywords
identifier: http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=E&sK=Emesa&sT=keywords
H. Takahashi 259. Ḥimṣ The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 196-197
The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 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 I B2, II A2, V
ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 539
كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 507
The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 553
The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Homs Emesa
Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī II 347
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 17
Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr Ibn Jubayr M.J. de Goeje 255-259
Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār Ibn Baṭṭūta 83, 84, 94, 664, 665
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668261 Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.