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Merv — ܡܪܘ

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A city of Khurasan.

Names

  • ܡܪܘ
  • ܡܰܪܽܘ2
  • مرو3, 8
  • مرو الشاهجان7
  • Maru4
  • Merv1, 5

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.662778° Long. 62.1925°6

Attestations

Attestation of name مرو in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

مرو3, 8 8

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

مرو الشاهجان7 7
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Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 215, 420.
  • 2 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 261.
  • 3 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 235.
  • 4 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 273.
  • 5 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Merv.
  • 6 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961873," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: V, pp: 132.
  • 8 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 279.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Merv — ܡܪܘ ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/607.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Merv — ܡܪܘ .” 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/607.

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Entry Title: Merv — ܡܪܘ

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  • 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, “Merv — ܡܪܘ ”

Additional Credit:

  • Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Yaʿqūbī 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
  • al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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