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Ṣawro - ܨܘܪܐ

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A village in Ṭur ʿAbdin.

Names

  • ܨܘܪܐ
  • Ṣawro1
  • ܨܰܘܪܐ2
  • الصور3
  • الصَور5
  • Ṣawr4
  • Ṭur Abdin
  • Ṭur ‘Abdin

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.538333° Long. 40.888056°1

Descriptions

“ܐܰܬܪܐ ܘܩܶܠܥܳܐ ܕܰܠܓܰܪܒܝ ܡܰܕܢܰܚ ܡܰܪܕܝܢ ܡܰܪܕܶܐ ܝܰܘܡܳܐ” 2
“بلدة وقلعة شمالي شرقي ماردين مرحلة يوم عنها.” 3
“a town and citadel about one day journey northeast from Mardin. [Modern name, Savur. (tr.)]” 4
A village in Ṭur ʿAbdin.

Attestation

Attestation of name الصَور in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الصَور5 5
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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: 217, 300, map: Map III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 557.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 558.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:493.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ṣawro — ܨܘܪܐ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/4.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ṣawro — ܨܘܪܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/4.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Ṣawro — ܨܘܪܐ

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
  • 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

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