Arbela - ܐܪܒܝܠ

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Capital of modern Kurdistan, in eastern Iraq.1

Names

  • ܐܪܒܝܠ
  • Arbela2, 6
  • ܐܰܪܒܝܠ3
  • إِرْبِل8
  • اربل4
  • Arbil5
  • Erbil2, 7

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.191111° Long. 44.009167°2

Descriptions

ܐܰܬܪܐ ܕܰܠܡܰܕܢܰܚ ܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܘܨܰܠ ܡܰܫܩܠܐ ܕܰܬܪܝܢ ܝܰܘܡܝ̈ܢ3
بلدة بين المشرق والجنوب عن الموصل مرحلة يومين4
45. Arbela1
a town about two day journey southeast of Mosul.5

Attestation

Attestation of name إِرْبِل in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

إِرْبِل8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 E. G. Mathews, Jr., "Arbela." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 31.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: 10–11, 31, 50–51, 63, 92, 176, 202, 212, 218, 242–243, 261, 268, 292, 309, 361, 365, 374, 414, 415, 417, 429, map: Map I C2, II C2, IV.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: Arbela.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: 17, 18, 44, 46, 77, 114, 127, 156, 166, 168-169, 172, 176, 184, 190, 191, 192, 201, 202, 260, 261, 298, 323, 345, 349, 352, 359.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:167.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arbela — ܐܪܒܝܠ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/13.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arbela — ܐܪܒܝܠ .”, 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/13.

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Entry Title: Arbela — ܐܪܒܝܠ

Additional Credit:

  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • 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 Daniel L. Schwartz

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