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The border area of northern Syria and Mesopotamia between the Byzantine Empire and the caliphate.

Names

  • al-Thaghr2
  • الثغر1
  • الثَغْر3

Place Type

region

Descriptions

The border area of northern Syria and Mesopotamia between the Byzantine Empire and the caliphate.

Attestation

Attestation of name الثَغْر in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الثَغْر3 3
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  • 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 511.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 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: 569.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:93.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Thaghr” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/567.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Thaghr.”, 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/567.

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  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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