ʿAyn Shams

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A city in Egypt.

Names

  • عين شمس2
  • ʿAyn Shams

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 30.131757° Long. 31.284786°1

Attestation

Attestation of name عين شمس in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.

عين شمس2 2
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Works Cited

Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.

  • 1 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727117," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 2 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 80.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “ʿAyn Shams” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2924.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “ʿAyn Shams.” 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/2924.

About this Entry

Entry Title: ʿAyn Shams

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, entry contributor, “ʿAyn Shams

Additional Credit:

  • Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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