Anasartha

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[A]n ancient fortified settlement situated some 60 km. to the south-east of Aleppo and 100 km. to the north-east of Ḥamāt, on a route through the desert—on the fringes of which it lies—connecting Aleppo with Bag̲h̲dād.5

Names

  • الخناصرة4
  • خناصرة3
  • al-Khunāṣira
  • Anasartha1

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.809864° Long. 37.518964°2

Descriptions

ثم الخناصرة وبالس وهما من عمل قنسرين4
A Roman village southeast of Aleppo.

Attestation

Attestation of name خناصرة in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

خناصرة3 3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Anasartha.
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668187," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 446.
  • 4 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.
  • 5 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Anasartha” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/574.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Anasartha.” 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/574.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Anasartha

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
  • Thomas A. Carlson, entry contributor, “Anasartha

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
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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