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Qurṭuba - قرطبة

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“[A] town of southern Spain situated at 370 feet above sea-level on the right (north) bank of the central course of the Guadalquivir (from the Arabic al-Wādī al-Kabīr "the great river"), the ancient Baetis, with 1,234,000 inhabitants, is at the present day the capital of the province of the same name which lies on both sides of the river in the heart of Andalusia.” 2

Names

  • قرطبة1
  • Cordoba
  • Cordova
  • Córdoba
  • Qurṭuba

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.884683° Long. -4.779171°3

Descriptions

“فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط القيروان قرطبة” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 47.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256128," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

“Qurṭuba - قرطبة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5430.

Bibliography:

“Qurṭuba - قرطبة .” 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/5430.

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Entry Title: Qurṭuba - قرطبة

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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
  • , entry contributor, “Qurṭuba - قرطبة ”

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
  • Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Al-Muqaddasī 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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