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Astar Abad - استر أباد

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“Astarābādh (modern Gurgan), historically a province as well as a town, is located in what the ancient Greeks called Hyrcania, adjacent to the Persian province of Māzandarān. The city, some thirty kilometres east of the Caspian Sea, has origins going back to Achaemenid times (550–330 B.C.E.).” 2

Names

  • ألستان (?)
  • استر أباد
  • استراباذ1
  • Alēstan (?)
  • Astarābād
  • Astar Abad
  • Asterabad
  • Esterabad

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.72195° Long. 54.84358°3

Descriptions

“استراباذ مدينة بجرجان وقرية بنسا خراسان” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 25.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://www.geonames.org/144233/alestan.html," GeoNames

How to Cite This Entry

“Astar Abad - استر أباد ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5178.

Bibliography:

“Astar Abad - استر أباد .” 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/5178.

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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
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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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī 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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