al-Ḥilla - الحلة

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[A] town situated on the Euphrates midway between al-Kūfa and Bag̲h̲dād near the ruins of ancient Bābil.3

Names

  • الحلة1
  • al-Ḥilla

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 32.46367° Long. 44.41963°4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 117, 198, 230, 233, 243, 662.
  • 2 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 213-215, 217.
  • 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 4 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/99347," GeoNames

How to Cite This Entry

al-Ḥilla - الحلة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5043.

Bibliography:

al-Ḥilla - الحلة .” 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/5043.

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Entry Title: al-Ḥilla - الحلة

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
  • , entry contributor, “al-Ḥilla - الحلة

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 Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr 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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