ʿAqra - ܥܩܪ
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A town east of the Tigris and north of the Great Zab in northern Iraq.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 36.741389° Long. 43.893333°1
Descriptions
“ܩܶܠܥܳܐ ܕܰܒܛܘܪܐ ܕܡܘܨܠ. ܘܰܠܡܰܕܢܚܳܗ̇ ܡܰܪܕܶܐ ܬܪܶܝܢ ܝܰܘ̈ܡܝܢ ܡܶܬܝܰܕܥܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܥܰܩܪ ܚܘܡܰܝܕܝܗ. ” 2
“قلعة من جبال الموصل شرقيها مرحلة يومين عنها تعرف بعقر الحميدية.” 3
“a citadel two days journey north of Mosul. It is known as ʿAqr al-Ḥumaydiyya.” 4
A town east of the Tigris and north of the Great Zab in northern Iraq.
Notes
Moosa's English translation of Barsoum's description says "north" when it should be "east."
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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: 18, 70, 92, 226, 443, map: Map II C1, IV.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 559.
- 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: 517.
- 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: 551.
- 5 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: 12, 126, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158-159, 161, 162, 166, 172.
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:154.
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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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
- 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