Nisibis - ܢܨܝܒܝܢ

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City in Mesopotamia and important center of early Syriac Christianity.1

Names

  • ܢܨܝܒܝܢ3
  • Nisibis2, 6, 7
  • نصيبين4
  • نَصِيبين8
  • Nisibin5
  • Nṣibin2
  • Nusaybin2, 5
  • Ṣoba2
  • Ṣōbā7

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.06667° Long. 41.21667°2

Descriptions

ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܕܥܰܡܝܪܳܐ ܡܶܢ ܐܰܬܪ̈ܘܳܬܳܐ ܕܰܓܙܝܳܪܐ. ܐܝܬ ܒܶܝܬ ܠܳܗ̇ ܠܡܰܘܨܠ ܚܰܡܫܳܐ ܝܰܘܡ̈ܝܢ. ܘܝܰܘܡܳܢܳܐ ܐܺܝܬܶܝܗ̇ ܡܕܝܢܳܬܘܢܝܬܳܐ ܘܐܝܬ ܬܽܘܒ ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܩܪܝܬܳܐ ܕܥܰܠ ܣܶܦܰܬ ܦܪܳܬ ܠܡܰܥܪܒܳܐ ܕܒܺܝܪܰܗܓܺܝܟ ܘܡܶܬܝܰܕܥܳܐ ܢܨܺܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܳܝܐ.3
مدينة عامرة من بلاد الجزيرة بينها وبين الموصل خمسة ايام وهي اليوم بليدة: ونصيبين ايضا قرية على شاطئ الفرات غربي بيرهجك كانت تعرف بنصيبين الروم.4
400. Nisibis1
a town in the Jazira, five days’ journey from Mosul; today it is a small town. Nisibin is also the name of a village on the west bank of the Euphrates, west of Biricik, formerly known as the Byzantine Nisibin. [Modern name, Nusaybin. (tr.)]5

Attestation

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

نَصِيبين8 8

Notes

In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description ܕܰܓܙܝܳܪܐ should read ܕܓܳܙܰܪܬܐ.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi, "Nisibis." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 310-311.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: 3, 8, 18, 33, 35, 46, 48, 53, 57, 58, 71, 72, 79 (fig. 29), 110, 143, 145–146, 157, 161, 167–168, 186, 192, 194, 203, 209, 212, 219, 264, 267, 268, 290, 291, 303, 310–311 (with fig. 92), 313, 324, 327, 351, 358, 368, 370, 376, 382, 389, 401, 419–420, 427, 433, map: Map I C1, II C1, III, 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: 562.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: 520.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: 556.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: Nisibis.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: 16, 38, 39, 42, 44-45, 46, 49, 73, 76, 77, 169, 345, 348, 353.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:233.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Nisibis — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/142.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Nisibis — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ .”, 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/142.

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Entry Title: Nisibis — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ

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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