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Qūmis

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A region between al-Ray and Naysābūr, around al-Dāmaghān.

Names

  • قومس2, 3
  • Komisene
  • Komish
  • Qūmis

Place Type

region

Location

  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 35.961093500000004° Long. 54.038289500000005°5
  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 35.9610935° Long. 54.0382895°1

Descriptions

“طبران مدينة على تخوم قومس ورستاق سرخس” 3
“[A] small province of mediaeval Islamic Persia, lying to the south of the Alburz chain watershed watershd and extending into the northern fringes of the Das̲h̲t-i Kavīr.” 4

Attestation

Attestation of name قومس in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

قومس2, 3 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942287," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 2 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 276.
  • 3 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 24.
  • 4 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942287," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Qūmis” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2994.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Qūmis.” 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/2994.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Qūmis

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, “Qūmis”

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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