al-Madāʾin - المدائن
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al-Madāʾin; المدائن; المداين
[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.
location: 33.095252 44.525528
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5060
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5060
identifier: http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2345186
Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr Ibn Jubayr M.J. de Goeje 216, 217
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2345186 iDAI.gazetteer Deutsches Archäologisches Institute