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Mopsuestia - ܡܗܦܣܘܣܛܝܐ

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A town of Cilicia II southwest of Anazarbos on the Pyramos river.

Names

  • ܡܗܦܣܘܣܛܝܐ
  • Mopsuestia1, 5
  • ܡܣܝܣܛܰܐ2
  • ܡܲܗܦܣܘܼܣܛܝܼܵܐ6
  • المصيصة3
  • المَصِّيْصة7
  • Maṣṣīṣa4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.95° Long. 35.58333°1

Descriptions

“ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܕܥܰܠ ܣܦܳܪ ܢܰܗܪܳܐ ܓܺܝܚܘܢ ܒܩܘܪܒܳܐ ܕܰܐܛܰܢܰܗ ܠܡܰܕܢܚܳܐ.” 2
“مدينة على شاطئ جيحان تقارب ادنة شرقا.” 3
“a town on the Jijan, just east of Adana.” 4

Attestation

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

المَصِّيْصة7 7
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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), map: Map I A1.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: 561.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: 519.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 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: 62-63, 65.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Isḥaq Shbadnaya, Poem on God's Governance from 'In the Beginning' until Eternity , p: CUA Hyvernat Syr. Ms. 7, f. 53b.
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:169.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mopsuestia — ܡܗܦܣܘܣܛܝܐ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/138.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mopsuestia — ܡܗܦܣܘܣܛܝܐ .”, 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/138.

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Entry Title: Mopsuestia — ܡܗܦܣܘܣܛܝܐ

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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