Damascus — ܕܪܡܣܘܩ
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“Syriac Darmsuq and Arabic Dimashq. City in Syria
and the seat at present of the Syr. Orth. Patriarchate.” 1
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settlement
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Descriptions
“وقلدت منه الاعمال واضيفت اليه كور الاقاليم مثل
دمشق والقيروان والشيراز” 10
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"Damascus" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 H. Takahashi, "148. Damascus," The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 111-113.
- 2 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 15, 30, 38, 40, 43, 55, 77, 86, 108, 111–113 (with fig. 39), 116, 140, 142, 165, 183, 192, 196–197, 208, 228, 241, 262, 270, 284, 296, 330, 342, 361, 368, 389, 393–394 (with fig. 114), 425–426, 431, (fig. 128), 441, 444, map: Map I A2, II A2, V.
- 3 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 539.
- 4 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 506.
- 5 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 554.
- 6 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Damascus.
- 7 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 13, 62-63, 65, 361, 363, 364.
- 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: II, pp: 527.
- 9 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 236.
- 10 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 9.
- 11 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 13, 16, 17, 19, 258-298.
- 12 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678106," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Damascus — ܕܪܡܣܘܩ
” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/66.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Damascus — ܕܪܡܣܘܩ .” 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/66.About this Entry
Entry Title: Damascus — ܕܪܡܣܘܩ
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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, David A. Michelson, and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Damascus — ܕܪܡܣܘܩ ”
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 Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- al-Ya`qubi data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson