Salamiyya — ܣܠܡܝܗ̇

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[A] town in central Syria in the district of Orontes (Nahr al-ʿĀṣī), about 25 miles south-east of Ḥamāt and 35 miles north-east of Ḥimṣ (for the town’s exact situation, see Kiepert’s map in M. von Oppenheim, Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf , Berlin 1899, i. 124 ff., and ii, 401; National Geographic Atlas of the World , 5th ed., Washington D.C. 1981, 178-9).8

Names

  • ܣܠܡܝܗ̇2
  • سلمية3, 7
  • سَلَمْية6
  • Salamias
  • Salamīya
  • Salamiye
  • Salamiyya1, 4
  • Salamya4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.050807° Long. 37.057146°5

Descriptions

ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܕܒܐܘܚܕܳܢܳܐ ܕܰܚܡܬ ܘܰܠܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ ܡܰܕܢܚܳܝܐ ܕܝܠܳܗ̇ ܒܰܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܡܰܕܒܪܳܐ.2
بلدة من اعمال حماه في جنوبها الشرقي في ناحية البرية.3
وتدمر وسلمية وهما من عمل حمص7
a town southeast of Ḥama, toward the desert.4

Attestation

Attestation of name سَلَمْية in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

سَلَمْية6 6
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 38.
  • 2 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 556.
  • 3 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 516.
  • 4 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 558.
  • 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668362," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: III, pp: 272.
  • 7 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
  • 8 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Salamiyya — ܣܠܡܝܗ̇ ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/411.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Salamiyya — ܣܠܡܝܗ̇ .” 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/411.

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Entry Title: Salamiyya — ܣܠܡܝܗ̇

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  • 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 David A. Michelson, entry contributors, “Salamiyya — ܣܠܡܝܗ̇

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
  • Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass

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