Sivas - ܣܝܘܐܣ
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A city in central Anatolia.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 39.747662° Long. 37.017879°4
Descriptions
A city in central Anatolia.
“Sebasteia, modern Sivas, was the metropolis of the late Roman province of Armenia prima. In 575/6, it was sacked by a Persian army under Khosrow himself, as recorded in Joh. Eph., EH 6.8.” 8
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- 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 561.
- 2 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.
- 3 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.
- 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/629075
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:208.
- 6 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 1349.
- 7 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 298, chapter: 3.6.8.
- 8 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 1349-1350.
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— ܣܝܘܐܣ
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- 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
- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo