Bālis — ܒܐܠܫ
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“[F]ormer town in
northern Syria, which was both a port on the Western bank of the Euphrates
and an important stage, 100 km. from Aleppo and at the entrance to the
D̲j̲azīra, of the road from Antioch and the Mediterranean leading, via
al-Raḳḳa, to Bag̲h̲dād and ʿIrāḳ.” 7
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 36.0021275° Long. 38.126807°4
Descriptions
“ܐܰܬܪܐ ܕܒܶܝܬ ܚܳܠܳܒ ܠܩܰܐܠܘܢܝܩܝ ܘܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܒܪܒܐܠܝܣܘܣ
ܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܘܡܶܫܬܰܡܰܗ ܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܡܰܣܟܢܗ.” 1
“بلدة بارض الشام بين حلب والرقة وهي برباليسوس
القديمة تسمى في وقتنا مسكنة” 2
“ثم الخناصرة وبالس وهما من عمل قنسرين” 6
“a town in Syria between Aleppo and al-Raqqa, known
in antiquity as Perpalisos, it is now called Maskana.” 3
Notes
Moosa's transcription
"Perpalisos" should be "Barbalissus".
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- 1 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 537.
- 2 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 505.
- 3 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 552.
- 4 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668208," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 390.
- 6 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 7 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Bālis — ܒܐܠܫ .” 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/299.About this Entry
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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
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin