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Amida - ܐܡܝܕ

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“City in upper Mesopotamia.” 1

Names

  • ܐܡܝܕ
  • Amida2, 6
  • ܐܡܕ9
  • ܐܡܕܐ
  • ܐܳܡܝ̣ܕ3
  • ܕܝܰܐܪܒܟܶܪ3
  • آمد4, 8
  • ديار بكر4
  • Amid2, 5
  • Āmid7
  • Diyarbakir5
  • Diyārbakr7
  • Diyarbakır2
  • Omid2

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.981944° Long. 40.210556°2

Descriptions

“ܡܕܺܝܢܬܐ ܚܰܣܝ̣ܢܬܐ ܕܕܶܩܠܰܬ ܚܳܕܰܪ ܠܣܘܓܐܗ̇.” 3
“مدينة قديمة حصينة دجلة محيطة باكثرها” 4
“32. Amid” 1
“an ancient fortified city, virtually surrounded by the Tigris.” 5
“City in upper Mesopotamia.” 1

Attestation

Attestation of name آمد in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. آمد4, 8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi, "Amid." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 18-21.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 4, 9, 18–20 (with fig. 5), 46, 60, 69, 92, 126, 139, 141, 143, 145, 163, 164–165, 178, 182, 183, 201, 212, 217, 224, 226, 267–268, 280, 283, 308, 343, 367, 370, 375, 379, 397, 406, 408, 418, 426, 429, 435, 438, 443, 444, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 504.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 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: 551.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Amida.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 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: 4, 11, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54-60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 85, 88, 89, 91, 93, 95, 102, 103, 106, 129, 130, 190, 195, 197, 204, 210, 213, 226, 236, 257, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 278, 313, 316, 332, 348, 351, 352, 353, 357, 359.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:562.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 9 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 50; 310; 331; 338, chapter: 3.1.41; 3.6.14; 3.6.27; 3.6.34.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., “Amida — ܐܡܝܕ ” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/8.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Amida — ܐܡܝܕ .”, 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/8.

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Entry Title: Amida — ܐܡܝܕ

Additional Credit:

  • Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
  • 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
  • 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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