Qashmīr - قشمير

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It is situated in the western Himālayas about 5,000 ft. above sea-level, and is shaped like an elliptical saucer with a similarly-shaped level valley in the centre.2

Names

  • قشمير1
  • Kashmīr
  • Kashmīra
  • Qashmīr

Place Type

region

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 33.5329° Long. 75.40781°3

Descriptions

ومملكة الهند يدخل فيها السند وقشمير وطرف من التبت ومن دان بدينهم1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 9.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/1269320," GeoNames

How to Cite This Entry

Qashmīr - قشمير ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5414.

Bibliography:

Qashmīr - قشمير .” 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/5414.

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Entry Title: Qashmīr - قشمير

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • 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
  • , entry contributor, “Qashmīr - قشمير

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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