Gazarta - ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ
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A city on the Tigris river between Amida and Mosul.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 37.325° Long. 42.195833°1
Descriptions
“ܡܕܺܝܢܬܘܢܝܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܕܥܰܠ ܕܶܩܠܰܬ ܒܶܝܬ ܐܳܡܝܕ ܠܡܰܘܨܠ.” 2
“بلدة بين الموصل وديار بكر راكبة على دجلة” 3
A city on the Tigris river between Amida and Mosul.
“a town between Mosul and Diyarbakir, in a deep valley on the west bank of the Tigris.” 4
Attestations
Status: published
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Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 4, 18, 54, 129, 291, 361, 411, map: Map II C1, III, IV.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 538.
- 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: 506.
- 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: 554.
- 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: 20, 21, 39, 40, 46, 60, 69, 70, 71, 77, 91, 92, 95, 98, 100, 101-107, 109, 110, 112-115, 117, 118, 119, 128, 136, 137, 140, 165, 169, 173, 179, 223, 241, 259, 260, 345, 348, 349, 351, 352, 353.
- 6 Alphonse MinganaCatalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscriptscol: I:748., col: I:748.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:160.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gazarta
— ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ
” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/88.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gazarta — ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/88.About this Entry
Entry Title: Gazarta — ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ
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
- 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