al-Dīnawar
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Al-Dīnawar “was one of the most
important towns in D̲j̲ibāl (Media); it is now in ruins. The exact location is 34°
35′ Lat. N. and 47° 26′ E. Long. (Greenwich).” 4
Place Type
settlement
Location
Descriptions
“قزوين مدينة للري وقزوينك قرية بالدينور” 3
Attestation
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"Dinavar" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903012," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 2 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 271.
- 3 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 27.
- 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903012," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Dīnawar” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2983.
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Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Dīnawar.” 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/2983.About this Entry
Entry Title: al-Dīnawar
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- 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, “al-Dīnawar”
Additional Credit:
- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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