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Gulf of Aden

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The bay which separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa .

Names

  • الخليج البربري2
  • بحر النعم3
  • بحر اليمن3
  • خليج بربرا
  • خليج عدن
  • al-Khalīj al-Barbarī
  • Baḥr al-Niʿm
  • Baḥr al-Yaman
  • Gulf of Aden
  • Khalīj Barbarā
  • Khalīj ʿAdan

Place Type

open-water

Location

  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 12.0000001° Long. 47.9999999°4
  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 12.0000001° Long. 47.9999999°1

Descriptions

A gulf connecting to the Red Sea in the west located between Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Arabian Sea.

Attestation

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

الخليج البربري2 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39305," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 2 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 84.
  • 3 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 59, 59d.
  • 4 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39305," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gulf of Aden” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2932.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gulf of Aden.” 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/2932.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Gulf of Aden

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 and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Gulf of Aden”

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

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