Bālis - ܒܐܠܫ

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Names

  • ܒܐܠܫ
  • Bālis
  • ܒܪܒܐܠܝܣܘܣ1
  • ܒܳܐܠܫ1
  • ܡܰܣܟܢܗ1
  • بالس2, 5
  • بالش2
  • برباليسوس2
  • مسكنة2
  • Bāls3
  • Bālsh3
  • Maskana3
  • Perpalisos3

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.0021275° Long. 38.126807°4

Descriptions

ܐܰܬܪܐ ܕܒܶܝܬ ܚܳܠܳܒ ܠܩܰܐܠܘܢܝܩܝ ܘܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܒܪܒܐܠܝܣܘܣ ܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܘܡܶܫܬܰܡܰܗ ܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܡܰܣܟܢܗ.1
بلدة بارض الشام بين حلب والرقة وهي برباليسوس القديمة تسمى في وقتنا مسكنة2
a town in Syria between Aleppo and al-Raqqa, known in antiquity as Perpalisos, it is now called Maskana.3

Attestation

Attestation of name بالس in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. بالس2, 5 5

Notes

Moosa's transcription "Perpalisos" should be "Barbalissus".
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Works Cited

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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: 537.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 505.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 552.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668208
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:390.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Bālis — ܒܐܠܫ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/299.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Bālis — ܒܐܠܫ .”, 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/299.

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Entry Title: Bālis — ܒܐܠܫ

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

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