Uqair - العُقَيْر
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A village on the coastline of al-Baḥrayn in the administrative district of Hagar.
Names
- العُقير1
- العُقَيْر
- al-ʿUqair
- al-ʿUqayr
- Uqair
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
(representative):
- Lat. 26.03333° Long. 50.55°
- Within Beth Qaṭraye .
Descriptions
“العقير : [...] قرية على شاطئ البحر بحذاء هجر” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Rūmī Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: 4, pp: 138.
How to Cite This Entry
Tobias Scheunchen, “Uqair - العُقَيْر
” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5509.
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Bibliography:
Tobias Scheunchen, “Uqair - العُقَيْر .” 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/5509.About this Entry
Entry Title: Uqair - العُقَيْر
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, “Uqair - العُقَيْر ”
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- 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
- Yaqūt b. ʿAbdallah al-Ḥamawī data collection by Saif al-Murikhi
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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