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Reshʿayna - ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ

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“City on the Khabur, located in the eastern part of ancient Osrhoene and today straddling the Turkish-Syrian border, the Syrian part now bearing the name Raʾs al-ʿAyn and the Turkish part Ceylanpınar (earlier Resülayn).”1

Names

  • ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ
  • Reshʿayna2, 8, 9
  • ܪܝܫܥܝܢܐ7
  • ܪܝܺܫ ܥܰܝܢܳܐ3
  • رأس العين6
  • رأس عين4, 6
  • Ceylanpınar2
  • Raʾs al-Ayn
  • Raʾs al-Ayn
  • Raʾs al-Ayn
  • Raʾs al-Ayn
  • Raʾs al-ʿAyn2
  • Raʾs al-‘Ayn
  • Raʾs al-‘Ayn
  • Raʾs al-‘Ayn
  • Raʾs al-’Ayn
  • Reshayna
  • Resh Ayna
  • Resh ‘Ayna
  • Resh'aina
  • Resh‘ayna
  • Resülayn2
  • Rish Ayna
  • Rish ʿAyna5
  • Rish ‘Ayna
  • Theodosiopolis2

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 36.82584° Long. 40.04962°2
  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 36.8448042000° Long. 40.0686407000°8

Attestation

Attestation of names رأس عين and رأس العين in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. رأس عين4, 6 رأس العين6 6
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi and L. Van Rompay,Reshʿayna,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 351.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al.,Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 26, 46, 110, 111, 190, 220, 276, 279, 302, 313, 344, 351, 357, 366, 367, 370, 419, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 555.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 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: 516.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 557.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي,معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:15.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 308; 313; 328, chapter: 3.6.13; 3.6.17; 3.6.26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Ian Mladjov,Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii, map 1–14, map: 1, 2, 7.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 9 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 832.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 10 p: 189-201., p: 189-201.
  • 11 p: 770-782., p: 770-782.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Reshʿayna — ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ ” last modified July 11, 2025, http://syriaca.org/place/172.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Reshʿayna — ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2025. Entry published July 11, 2025. http://syriaca.org/place/172.

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Entry Title: Reshʿayna — ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ

Additional Credit:

  • Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter
  • Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson
  • Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter
  • Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov
  • Connection to the Syriac World identified by David Wilmshurst
  • Connection to the Syriac World identified by Nathanael Andrade
  • 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
  • Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo

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