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Amman - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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An ancient town east of the Jordan River, now the capital of Jordan.

Names

  • Amman1
  • عَمَان2

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 31.933333° Long. 35.933333°1

Descriptions

An ancient town east of the Jordan River, now the capital of Jordan.

Attestation

Attestation of name عَمَان in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. عَمَان2 2
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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), p: 63, map: Map II A3.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV: 170.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Amman” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/22.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Amman.”, 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/22.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Amman

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

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