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A frontier town on the Khabur River.

Names

  • Magdal1
  • مجدل2
  • مِجْدَل4
  • Majdal3

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.65633° Long. 40.7443°1

Descriptions

“اسم بلدة مندرسة بالخابور الى جانبه كانت تحت رأس عين بمرحلة وذكر ياقوت شاعرا منها معاصرا له.”2
A frontier town on the Khabur River.
“an ancient town near the river Khabur, below Rish ʿAyna. Yaqut al-Ḥamawi mentions a contemporary poet from this village.”3

Attestation

Attestation of name مِجْدَل in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. مِجْدَل4 4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 344, map: Map I B2.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987)., p: 519.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003)., p: 555.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي, معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990)., p: V:67.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., “Magdal” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/125.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Magdal.”, 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/125.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Magdal

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
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson

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