Hamadān
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A city in northwestern Iran.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 34.799294° Long. 48.512209°2
Descriptions
“ذكر المتغلّبين على الملك بعد موت السلطان أبي سعيد (...) ومنهم حسن خواجه بن الدّمرطاش بن الجوبان، تغلب على تبريز والسلطانيّة وهمدان، وقمّ وقاشان والريّ ورامين وفرغان والكرج” 5
A “city in central Iran
located in a fertile plain just south of Mt. Alwand, 48° 31′ E. (Greenw.),
34° 48′ N., altitude ca. 1800 metres/5900 ft.” 6
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"Hamedan" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 17, 18, 183, 278, 280, 322, 323.
- 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903021," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: V, pp: 461.
- 4 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 272.
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 240.
- 6 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, “Hamadān” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/823.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson, “Hamadān.” 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/823.About this Entry
Entry Title: Hamadān
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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, “Hamadān”
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 Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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