al-Madāʾin - المدائن
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“[T]he cities (pl. of al-madīna ), the Arabic translation of the Aramaic Māḥōzē or Medīnāt̲h̲ā referring to the Sāsānid metropolis on the Tigris about 20 miles southeast of Bag̲h̲dād where several adjacent cities connected by a floating bridge stretched along both banks of the river. This was the imperial administrative capital, the winter residence of the king, the home of the Jewish Exilarch and the seat of the Nestorian Catholikos.” 2
Names
- المدائن
- المداين1
- al-Madāʾin
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 33.095252° Long. 44.525528°3
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 216, 217.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2345186," iDAI.gazetteer
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“al-Madāʾin - المدائن .” 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/5060.About this Entry
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- 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 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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