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Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر

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“Between the steep and barren slopes of the "desert of Judah" and the mountainous land of Moab lies the Dead Sea, like a blue mirror 1150 feet below sea-level from north to south. Its length is about 50 miles, its midbreadth 8 miles and it has no exit.” 2

Names

  • البحيرة المقلوبة
  • البحيرة المنتنة
  • البحيرة الميتة
  • بحر لوط
  • بحيرة زغر1
  • al-Buḥaira al-Maqlūba
  • al-Buḥaira al-Mayyita
  • al-Buḥaira al-Muntina
  • Baḥr Lūṭ
  • Buḥaira Zughar
  • Dead Sea

Place Type

open-water

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 31.577850349494952° Long. 35.52394311313131°3

Descriptions

“ثم صورت الشام واجناده وجباله ومياهه من انهاره وبحره وما على ساحله من المدن وبحيرة طبرية وبحيرة زغر وتيه بنى اسرآئيل وموقعه منه” 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: 8.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

“Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5272.

Bibliography:

“Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر .” 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/5272.

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Entry Title: Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر

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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
  • Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Ḥawqal 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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