Ḥarran - ܚܪܢ
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“Syr./Hebrew Ḥārān; Latin Carrhae; Arabic Ḥarran. Ancient city in Mesopotamia, approximately 45 km south-southeast of Edessa.” 1
Place Type
settlement
Location
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- Lat. 36.8775° Long. 39.033889°2
Descriptions
“ܡܕܺܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܪܰܒܬܳܐ ܘܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܕܰܒܬܰܝܡܢܗ̇ ܕܐܽܘܪܗܳܝ ܘܰܚܫܝܒܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܪܒܐ ܕܐܰܬܪ̈ܘܳܬܐ ܕܡܨܪ ܘܰܩܪܝܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܗܳܫܐ.” 3
“كانت مدينة عظيمة قديمة في جنوبي الرها و بينهما يوم وعُدّت قصبة ديار مضر وامست قرية” 4
“250. Ḥarran” 1
“once a great city, a day’s journey south from Edessa. It was considered the capital of Diyar Miṣr, but now is a small village.” 5
“Syr./Hebrew Ḥārān; Latin Carrhae; Arabic Ḥarran. Ancient city in Mesopotamia, approximately 45 km south-southeast of Edessa.” 1
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- 1 H. Takahashi, "Ḥarran." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 191-192.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 2, 54, 71, 127, 133, 138, 142, 168, 189, 191–192 (with fig. 55), 220, 230, 247, 252, 277 (fig. 72), 285, 294, 302, 327, 347, 399, 403, 420, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 539.
- 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: 506.
- 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: 553.
- 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Harran.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:271.
- 8 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 313, chapter: 3.6.17.
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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
- 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
- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo