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Maypherqaṭ - ܡܝܦܪܩܛ

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A city north of the Tigris and east of Amida.

Names

  • ܡܝܦܪܩܛ
  • Maypherqaṭ1
  • ܡܝܺܦܰܪܩܰܛ2
  • ميافارقين3
  • مَيّافارقِين8
  • Maiperqāṭ6
  • Maipherqat5
  • Martyropolis1, 5
  • Mayperqat5
  • Miyapharqin4
  • Silvan1

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 38.1427855° Long. 41.003257°7

Descriptions

“ܛܒܝܒܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܕܰܡܕܝܢ̈ܬܳܐ ܕܐܳܡܺܝܕ ܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܕܢܚܳܗ̇ ܘܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܩܰܣܛܪܰܐ ܗܝ̣.” 2
“كانت اشهر مدينة بديار بكر في شماليها الشرقي وهي الان بليدة.” 3
“once the most famous city in the northeastern part of the province of Diyarbakir, now a small town.” 4

Attestation

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

مَيّافارقِين8 8
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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: 18, 247, 267, 273, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 562.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 520.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 556.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Maipherqat, Martyropolis, Mayperqat.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 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: 38, 49, 53, 54.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874573
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:272.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Maypherqaṭ — ܡܝܦܪܩܛ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/134.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Maypherqaṭ — ܡܝܦܪܩܛ .”, 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/134.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Maypherqaṭ — ܡܝܦܪܩܛ

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
  • Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
  • 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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