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Baʿalbak

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A city in Lebanon.

Names

  • بعلبك4
  • بَعْلَبك3
  • Baalbak
  • Baalbek1
  • Baʿalbak
  • Baʿlabakk
  • Ba‘albak
  • Heliopolis1

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.006664° Long. 36.203685°2

Descriptions

“وجنوبيها [من ديار العرب] وشيء من غربيهاثم يمتد عليها من ايلة على مدائن قوم لوط والبحيرة المنتنة التي تعرف ببحيرة زغر الى الشراة والبلقاء وهي من عمل فلسطين وأذرعات وحوران والبثنية والغوطة ونواحى بعلبك وذلك من عمل دمشق” 4

Attestation

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

بَعْلَبك3 3
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See Also

Works Cited

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  • 1 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Baalbek, Heliopolis.
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678179," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 537.
  • 4 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 17.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Baʿalbak” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/577.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Baʿalbak.” 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/577.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Baʿalbak

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 and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Baʿalbak”

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

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