ʿAqra - ܥܩܪ
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A town east of the Tigris and north of the Great Zab in northern Iraq.
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 36.741389° Long. 43.893333°1
Descriptions
“ܩܶܠܥܳܐ ܕܰܒܛܘܪܐ ܕܡܘܨܠ. ܘܰܠܡܰܕܢܚܳܗ̇ ܡܰܪܕܶܐ ܬܪܶܝܢ ܝܰܘ̈ܡܝܢ ܡܶܬܝܰܕܥܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܥܰܩܪ ܚܘܡܰܝܕܝܗ. ”2
“قلعة من جبال الموصل شرقيها مرحلة يومين عنها تعرف بعقر الحميدية.”3
“a citadel two days journey north of Mosul. It is known as ʿAqr al-Ḥumaydiyya.”4
A town east of the Tigris and north of the Great Zab in northern Iraq.
Notes
Moosa's English translation of Barsoum's description says "north" when it should be "east."
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 18, 70, 92, 226, 443, map: Map II C1, IV.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991)., p: 559.
- 3 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: 517.
- 4 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003)., p: 551.
- 5 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, CSCO 582, Subs. 104 (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), p: 12, 126, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158-159, 161, 162, 166, 172.
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي, معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990)., p: IV:154.
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Additional Credit:
- 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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- 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