Claudia - ܩܠܘܕܝܐ
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A city southeast of Melitene.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 38.1666666° Long. 38.6666666°1
Descriptions
“ܚܶܣܢܳܐ ܕܩܰܪܝܒ ܗܘܐ ܠܡܺܝܠܝܛܝܢܝ ܐܶܣܬܚܦ ܘܰܗܦܰܟ ܒܢܳܝܗܝ ܚܰܣܢ ܒܰܪ ܩܚܛܒܗ ܫܢܰܬ 141 ܗܳܓܳܪܳܝܬܐ. ܘܫܰܚܠܦܗ ܠܰܐܬܪܐ ܒܰܫܡܗ. ܘܰܚܪܒ ܒܳܬܰܪ ܕܳܪܐ ܬܠܳܬܰܥܣܝܪܳܝܐ. ” 2
“حصن كان بقرب ملطية هدم فاعاد بناءه الحسن بن قحطبة سنة 141 هـ وحوله بلدة باسمه خربت بعد القرن الثالث عشر.” 3
“a citadel near Melitene, destroyed and rebuilt by al-Ḥasan Ibn Quḥṭuba in 141 A.H. Around the citadel was built a town bearing the same name, but it was laid to ruin after the thirteenth century.” 4
A city southeast of Melitene.
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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: 178, 408, map: Map II B1.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 559-560.
- 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: 518.
- 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: 552.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:445.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Claudia
— ܩܠܘܕܝܐ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/63.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Claudia — ܩܠܘܕܝܐ .”, 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/63.About this Entry
Entry Title: Claudia — ܩܠܘܕܝܐ
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