Ispahan
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A city in central Iran.
Place Type
settlement
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"Isfahan" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 204, 216.
- 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/902990," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 244.
- 4 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 72.
- 5 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 238.
- 6 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 4.
- 7 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 209, 210, 211, 212, 219, 240, 293, 304, 370, 640, 662.
- 8 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2089954," iDAI.gazetteer
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ispahan” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/830.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ispahan.” 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/830.About this Entry
Entry Title: Ispahan
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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 and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Ispahan”
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 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
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr 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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