Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ

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A historical region bounded on the north by the Euphrates River and the Taurus Mountains, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the desert, and on the south by Palestine, which during the medieval period was considered the southernmost district of Syria.

Names

  • ܣܘܪܝܐ
  • ܣܽܘܪܺܝܰܐ1
  • ارض الشام2
  • الشأم8
  • الشَأم6
  • الشام7, 11
  • al-Shām
  • Syria3, 4, 5

Place Type

region

Attestations

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

الشام7, 11 7

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

الشأم8 8

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

الشَأم6 6
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Works Cited

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  • 1 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 228.
  • 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 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Hellenistic Syria, Byzantine Syria, Roman Syria.
  • 5 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 40, 62-65, 66.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: III, pp: 353.
  • 7 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 235.
  • 8 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 57.
  • 11 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 49, 51, 69, 70, 72, 73, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 106, 111, 114, 124, 126, 140, 143, 145, 164, 1666, 168, 181, 191, 203, 214, 247, 251, 290, 291, 294, 295, 300, 302, 304, 305, 307, 324, 325, 338, 356, 362, 363, 366, 371, 372, 394, 663, 667, 670, 671, 677.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/486.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ .” 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/486.

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Entry Title: Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ

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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 Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ

Additional Credit:

  • 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 Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Battuta 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
  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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