Lake Urmia - ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ

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A lake in northern Iran west of Tabriz and southeast of Lake Van.

Names

  • ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ
  • Lake Urmia1
  • ܝܰܡܬܳܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܺܝܐ2
  • بُحَيْرة ارمية5
  • بحيرة اورمية3
  • Lake Urmiya4

Place Type

open-water

Descriptions

A lake in northern Iran west of Tabriz and southeast of Lake Van.

Attestation

Attestation of name بُحَيْرة ارمية in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. بُحَيْرة ارمية5 5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), map: Map I C1, II C1, IV.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 561.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 519.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 556.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:417.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Lake Urmia — ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/116.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Lake Urmia — ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/116.

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Entry Title: Lake Urmia — ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ

Additional Credit:

  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson

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