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
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 35.809864° Long. 37.518964°2
Descriptions
“ثم الخناصرة وبالس وهما من عمل قنسرين” 4
A Roman village southeast of
Aleppo.
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"Anasartha" in WikipediaWorks 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
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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
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- 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
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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