Socotra
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An island off the horn of
Africa.
Place Type
island
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 12.4805981° Long. 53.9293594°5
Attestations
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"Socotra" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 164.
- 2 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Socotra.
- 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: III, pp: 256.
- 4 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 87.
- 5 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39338," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, “Socotra” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/642.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson, “Socotra.” 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/642.About this Entry
Entry Title: Socotra
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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, “Socotra”
Additional Credit:
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah 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
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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