Siirt - ܣܥܪܬ

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A city in eastern Turkey, southwest of Lake Van.1

Names

  • ܣܥܪܬ
  • Siirt2
  • ܣܥܶܪܬ3
  • اسعرت8
  • سعرت4
  • Seert2, 6, 7
  • Seert
  • Sert
  • Seʿert5
  • Se‘ert
  • Sʿert2
  • S‘ert

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.933333° Long. 41.95°2

Descriptions

ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܕܰܒܬܰܝܡܢܐ ܕܒܶܕܠܝܣ ( ܘܰܒܣܘܪܝܳܝܳܐ ܡܶܬܩܰܪܝܳܐ ܐܰܬܪܐ ܕܰܡܒܰܕܪ̈ܐ)3
مدينة جنوبي بدليس.4
510. Siirt1
a town south of Bedlis. [Modern name, Siirt. (tr.)]5

Attestation

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

اسعرت8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 A. Harrak, "Siirt." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 379.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: 1, 4, 8, 12, 27, 49, 56, 57, 113, 141, 147, 164, 203, 217, 218, 230, 265, 273, 302, 324, 325, 355, 362 (with fig. 108), 370, 373, 375, 379, 402, 405, 411, 435, 441, 447, map: Map 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: 556.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: 516.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: 558.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: Seert.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: 11, 13-14, 23, 27, 39, 55, 56, 64, 70, 73, 74, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93-94, 96, 98, 99, 102, 108, 113, 116, 176, 179, 213, 232, 264, 270, 316, 348, 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: II:565.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Siirt — ܣܥܪܬ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/188.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Siirt — ܣܥܪܬ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/188.

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Entry Title: Siirt — ܣܥܪܬ

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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