Tagrit - ܬܓܪܝܬ
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“Tagrit is a modern city located on the west bank of the Tigris, almost mid-way between Mosul and Baghdad.” 1
Place Type
settlement
Location
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- Lat. 34.6° Long. 43.68333°2
Descriptions
“ܡܕܺܝܢܬܐ ܕܒܶܝܬ ܒܓܕܕ ܠܡܰܘܨܠ ܐܰܬܛܰܒܒܬ ܗܘܳܬ ܒܕܳܪ̈ܐ ܕܰܥܒܰܪܘ ܒܟܘܽܪܣܝܳܐ ܕܡܰܦܪܝܢܘܬܐ ܕܡܰܕܢܚܐ ܡܶܢ ܫܢܰܬ 628 ܥܕܰܡܐ ܠܫܘܠܳܡܐ ܕܡܰܐܬܐ ܬܪܶܥܣܝܪܳܝܬܐ.” 3
“بلدة بين بغداد والموصل غربي دجلة كانت في العصور الذاهبة اشتهرت بكرسي مفارنة المشرق من سنة 628 م حتى منسلخ المئة الثانية عشرة” 4
“532. Tagrit” 1
“an ancient city west of the Tigris, between Baghdad and Mosul. In the golden age of the Syrians, it was the seat of the Maphryonos of the East from 628 until the end of the twelfth century.” 5
“Tagrit is a modern city located on the west bank of the Tigris, almost mid-way between Mosul and Baghdad.” 1
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- 1 A. Harrak532. TagritThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 395-396., p: 395-396.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 39–40 (with fig. 13), 71, 97, 104, 127, 199, 210, 249, 264, 273, 290, 300, 302, 313, 347, 386, 395–396 (with fig. 115), 407, 429, map: Map I C2, II C2.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 537.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 505.
- 5 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: 559.
- 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Tagrit.
- 7 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p: 19, 177, 178, 346.
- 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:45.
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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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson