About The Syriac Gazetteer

Introduction

The Syriac Gazetteer is a geographical reference work of Syriaca.org for places relevant to Syriac studies. “Places relevant to Syriac Studies” include places named in Syriac texts (such as Ḥarqel — ܚܪܩܠ), places interesting to historians who work on Syriac texts (such as Dura-Europos), and places where scholarship on Syriac is being produced (such as Japan). There are no temporal or spatial boundaries for the geographic database, which collects places relevant to any period of history useful for Syriac studies, from places mentioned in the Peshitta version of Genesis to places founded recently, and from ancient Edessa to Mongol-era outposts in China and diaspora communities in the United States of America. At least in theory, any type or size of place could be represented in the geographic database, from large empires to single churches or a particular named city gate. Maps are provided for places whose location is known, but the database includes places which are not located or even locatable: each place is a conceptual thing with a mental existence related to, but not reducible to, its physical manifestation. Mythological and other ahistorical places are also included in the database.

Editors and Contributors

General Editors

David A. Michelson
William L. Potter

Past General Editors

Thomas A. Carlson, 2014-2018

Senior Programmers

Tom Elliott
Winona Salesky

Technical Editors

David A. Michelson
Daniel L. Schwartz
William L. Potter

Advisory Editors

Sebastian P. Brock, Oxford University
Peter Brown, Princeton University
Aaron Butts, Yale University
Mark Dickens, University of Alberta
George A. Kiraz, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Jonathan Loopstra, Capital University
Andrea Schmidt, Université catholique de Louvain
H. L. Murre-van den Berg, Universiteit Leiden
Hidemi Takahashi, University of Tokyo
Lucas Van Rompay, Duke University
Joel Walker, University of Washington
Anthony J. Watson, Brown University
David Wilmshurst, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Area Editors

Nicholas Al-Jeloo, University of Sydney
Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University
Mark Dickens, University of Alberta
Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
Philip Forness, Princeton Theological Seminary
Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi
Jonathan Loopstra, Capital University
Kyle Smith, University of Toronto
Li Tang, Universität Salzburg
Anthony J. Watson, Brown University

Contributors

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
Roger-Youssef Akhrass
Haya Al Thani
Robert Aydin
Dina Boero
Thomas A. Carlson
Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
Anthony Davis
Philip Forness
Nathan P. Gibson
Mario Kozah
Adam Carter McCollum
David A. Michelson
William L. Potter
Silvio Roggo
Winona Salesky
Andrea Schmidt
Daniel L. Schwartz
Luke Yarbrough
Saif al-Murikhi

Copyright Status of The Syriac Gazetteer

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The Syriac Gazetteer is copyrighted and released under a “free culture” license, the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). This license lets anyone distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon our work, even commercially, as long as they credit Syriaca.org for the original creation (and do not suggest that Syriaca.org endorses them or their use of the work). Attribution for use of information from The Syriac Gazetteer should be modelled on the following citation:

Michelson, David A. and William L. Potter, eds. The Syriac Gazetteer. Second Edition. Nashville, TN: Syriaca.org, 2020-. https://syriaca.org/geo.

A model citation can be found on most individual articles as well; users are encouraged to contact the editors to discuss other means of attribution.

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