Samarqand
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“An ancient city of
Transoxania, the Arabic Māʾ warāʾ al-Nahr [q.v.], situated on the southern
bank of the Zarafs̲h̲ān river or Nahr Ṣug̲h̲d.” 5
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 39.656498° Long. 66.947223°2
Descriptions
“فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان
الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط
القيروان قرطبة” 4
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"Samarkand" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 19.
- 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59915," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: III, pp: 279.
- 4 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 47.
- 5 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, “Samarqand” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/865.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson, “Samarqand.” 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/865.About this Entry
Entry Title: Samarqand
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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, “Samarqand”
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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī 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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
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