ʿAyn Zarba - ܥܝܢ ܙܪܒܐ
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A city in Cilicia, a provincial capital of the Roman Empire and for a time the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 37.263889° Long. 35.905556°1
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܕܰܒܩܝܠܺܝܩܝܰܐ ܣܺܝܡܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܥܰܠ ܢܗܰܪ ܓܺܝ̣ܚܘܢ ܘܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܗܘܳܬ ܩܪܺܝܬܳܐ ܕܡܶܬܶܐܡܰܪ ܠܳܗ̇ ܐܰܢܐܙܘܪܐ.” 2
“مدينة في قيليقية كانت واقعة على نهر جيحان وامست الان قرية يقال لها انازروه.” 3
A city in Cilicia, a provincial capital of the Roman Empire and for a time the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
“a town in Cilicia, on the river Jījān. Today it is a small village called Anāzūra.” 4
Attestation
Notes
Dolabani's printer misread the initial olaph of this name as a zayn.
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Works Cited
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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: 35, map: Map I A1, II A1.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 559.
- 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: 517.
- 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: 551.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:201.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “ʿAyn Zarba
— ܥܝܢ ܙܪܒܐ
” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/9.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “ʿAyn Zarba — ܥܝܢ ܙܪܒܐ .”, 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/9.About this Entry
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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