Syria - ܣܘܪܝܐ

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A historical region bounded on the north by the Euphrates River and the Taurus Mountains, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the desert, and on the south by Palestine, which during the medieval period was considered the southernmost district of Syria.

Names

  • ܣܘܪܝܐ7
  • Syria3, 5
  • ܣܽܘܪܺܝܰܐ1
  • ارض الشام2
  • الشَأم6

Place Type

region

Descriptions

A historical region bounded on the north by the Euphrates River and the Taurus Mountains, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the desert, and on the south by Palestine, which during the medieval period was considered the southernmost district of Syria.

Attestation

Attestation of name الشَأم in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الشَأم6 6
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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: 228.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 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Hellenistic Syria, Byzantine Syria, Roman Syria.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: 40, 62-65, 66.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:353.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 6; 42; 50; 117; 166; 176; 190; 191; 193; 196; 199; 201; 202; 203; 204; 205; 207; 208; 221; 222; 226; 227; 231; 232; 246; 249; 252; 255; 260; 261; 297; 310; 330; 331, chapter: 3.1.5; 3.1.31; 3.1.41; 3.2.52; 3.3.33; 3.3.42; 3.4.10; 3.4.11; 3.4.12; 3.4.14; 3.4.15; 3.4.16; 3.4.17; 3.4.18; 3.4.19; 3.4.20; 3.4.22; 3.4.40; 3.4.41; 3.4.43; 3.4.44; 3.4.47; 3.4.48; 3.4.57; 3.4.60; 3.5.3; 3.5.9; 3.6.8; 3.6.14; 3.6.27.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ ” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/486.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ .”, 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/486.

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Entry Title: Syria — ܣܘܪܝܐ

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
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo

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