(eds.), "Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر " in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5272
  
    
      
        
          Dead Sea
          بحيرة زغر
          Buḥaira Zughar
          Baḥr Lūṭ
          al-Buḥaira al-Muntina
          al-Buḥaira al-Mayyita
          al-Buḥaira al-Maqlūba
          بحر لوط
          البحيرة المنتنة
          البحيرة الميتة
          البحيرة المقلوبة
          
          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.
          
            ثم صورت الشام واجناده وجباله ومياهه من انهاره وبحره وما على ساحله من المدن وبحيرة طبرية وبحيرة زغر وتيه بنى اسرآئيل وموقعه منه
          
                    
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          http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709
          
            Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik
                        Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal
                        
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                        Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
                        P. Bearman
                        
                    
                    
                        http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.