Hīt - هيت
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A “town in ʿIrāḳ situated in
about 33° 35′ N. and 42° 48′ E. on the right bank of the Euphrates, on a hill which may
be man-made.” 3
Names
- هيت2
- Diacira
- Hīt
- Hit
- Idu
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 33.6436° Long. 42.8215°4
Descriptions
“ثم رحلت من بغداد فوصلت إلى مدينة الأنبار، ثم إلى هيت، ثم إلى الحديثة، ثم إلى عانة.” 1
“ثم يمتد الفرات على ديار العرب حتى ينتهي الى الرقة وقرقيسيا
والرحبة والدالية وعانة والحديثة وهيت والانبارالى الكوفة” 2
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 663.
- 2 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
- 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 4 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894008," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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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
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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