Sharshāl - شرشال

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[C]onventional French form Cherchell, a town of Algeria, the chef-lieu of an arrondissement in the department of al-Aṣnām (formerly Orléansville). It is situated on the edge of the Miliana massif, 95 km/60 miles to the west of Algiers, in long. 2° 29′ E., lat. 36° 37′ N.2

Names

  • شرشال1
  • Cherchell
  • Sharshāl

Place Type

settlement

Descriptions

وشرشال مدينة قديمة ازلية قد خربت وفيها مرسى وفيها آثار قديمة واصنام من حجارة ومبان عظيمة، ومنها الى برشك مدينة كان عليها سور1
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 52.
    • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition

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    Sharshāl - شرشال .” 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/5463.

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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 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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