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Tayrān - تيران

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“Tiran (Arabic: جزيرة تيران‎Jazīrat Tīrān) is an island located in the Straits of Tiran, which separate the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aqaba.” 2

Names

  • تاران1
  • تيران
  • Tayrān
  • Tiran
  • Tīrān

Place Type

island

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 27.940278° Long. 34.561111°2

Descriptions

“[...] ثم قد انتهى حينئذ حدود ديار العرب من هذا البحر وهذا المكان من البحر له لسان يعرف ببحر القلزم فيمتد على تاران وجبيلان الى القلزم وينقطع وهو شرقى ديار العرب” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/594456491," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

Tobias Scheunchen, “Tayrān - تيران ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5495.

Bibliography:

Tobias Scheunchen, “Tayrān - تيران .” 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/5495.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Tayrān - تيران

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
  • Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributor, “Tayrān - تيران ”

Additional Credit:

  • Research on coordinates 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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