Amāsiyya - ܐܡܐܣܝܐ
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“The capital of the province Helenopontus, Amaseia was the see of a metropolitan and an important center in Late Antique Asia Minor.” 5
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 40.66680835° Long. 35.82794385°4
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܥܠ ܣܦܬ ܢܰܗܪܐ ܕܝܶܫܺܝܠ ܐܺܝܪܡܰܐܩ ܘܰܒܬܰܝܡܢܗ̇ ܕܨܰܐܡܨܘܽܢ ܡܪܰܕܶܐ 50 ܡܝ̈ܠܐ.” 1
“مدينة على ضفة نهر يشيل ايرماق على مسافة 50 ميلاً من جنوبي سمسون” 2
“a town fifty miles south of Samsun, on the bank of Yeşil Irmak.” 3
“The capital of the province Helenopontus, Amaseia was the see of a metropolitan and an important center in Late Antique Asia Minor.” 5
Notes
In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description ܡܪܰܕܶܐ should read ܡܰܪܕܶܐ.
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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: 536.
- 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: 504.
- 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: 551.
- 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857018
- 5 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 74.
- 6 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 51; 98, chapter: 3.1.42; 3.2.31.
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— ܐܡܐܣܝܐ
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Amāsiyya — ܐܡܐܣܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2024. Entry published February 16, 2024. http://syriaca.org/place/292.About this Entry
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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