Dujayl - دجيل

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[T]he largest river in southern Persia. It rises in the north-eastern part of the district of ʿArabistān (earlier called K̲h̲ūzistān), a little above Lat. 32º N. on the Zarda-Kūh, which belongs to the Bak̲h̲tiyārī mountain system or, to be more accurate, on one of the ranges named Kūh-i Rang, one of the highest mountains in south-western Persia (estimated at 13,000 feet).2

Names

  • دجيل1
  • كارون
  • Dujayl
  • Kārūn
  • Pasitigris

Place Type

river

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 27.0000001° Long. 50.9999999°3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 231, 232.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912879," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

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Dujayl - دجيل .” 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/5276.

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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 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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