al-Balqāʾ - البلقاء
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“[N]ame given by the Arab authors either to the whole of the Transjordanian territory corresponding approximately to the ancient countries of Ammon, Moab and even Gilead, or to the middle part of it, having, depending on the period, ʿAmmān, [q.v.], Ḥusbān or al-Ṣalt as its chief town.” 3
Names
- البلقاء
- البلقاء1
- al-Balqāʾ
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 32° Long. 35.66667°4
Descriptions
“ذكر ياقوت في معجم البلدان أن اسمها: زيزاء، وهي من قرى البلقاء.” 5
“وجنوبيها [من ديار العرب] وشيء من غربيهاثم يمتد عليها من ايلة على مدائن قوم لوط والبحيرة المنتنة التي تعرف ببحيرة زغر الى الشراة والبلقاء وهي من عمل فلسطين وأذرعات وحوران والبثنية والغوطة ونواحى بعلبك وذلك من عمل دمشق” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 2 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 126.
- 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 4 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/250751," GeoNames
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 126.
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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
- 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
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