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Sijistān - ܣܓܣܬܐܢ

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Names

  • ܣܓܣܬܐܢ
  • Sijistān
  • ܣܰܓܣܬܰܐܢ1
  • سجستان2
  • سِجِستان7
  • Segestan4
  • Segestān5
  • Sijistan3

Place Type

region

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 32.5° Long. 62.5°6

Descriptions

“ܦܢܝܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܪܰܒܬܳܐ ܘܰܩܠܝܡܳܐ ܗܘ ܦܰܬܝܳܐ ܒܩܘܪܳܒܐ ܕܗܰܪܐܬ ܪܰܚܝܩܳܐ 10 ܝܰܘܡ̈ܝܢ ” 1
“ناحية كبيرة وولاية واسعة جنوب هرات وبينهما عشرة ايام.” 2
“a vast territory, ten days’ journey south of Herat.” 3

Attestation

Attestation of name سِجِستان in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. سِجِستان7 7

Notes

In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description “ܒܩܘܪܳܒܐ” should read “ܒܩܘܪܒܳܐ” .
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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: 556.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: 516.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: 558.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Segestan.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 17, 344.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29547
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:214.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sijistān — ܣܓܣܬܐܢ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/409.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sijistān — ܣܓܣܬܐܢ .”, 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/409.

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Entry Title: Sijistān — ܣܓܣܬܐܢ

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

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