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ʿAqra - ܥܩܪ

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A town east of the Tigris and north of the Great Zab in northern Iraq.

Names

  • ܥܩܪ2
  • ʿAqra1
  • ܥܰܩܪ ܚܘܡܰܝܕܝܗ2
  • العقر3
  • العَقْر6
  • عقر الحميدية3
  • Aqr
  • Aqra
  • Aqrā
  • Aqr al-Ḥumaydiyya
  • Eqrā
  • ʿAqr4
  • ʿAqrā5
  • ʿAqr al-Ḥumaydiyya4
  • ʿEqrā5
  • ‘Aqr
  • ‘Aqra
  • ‘Aqrā
  • ‘Aqr al-Ḥumaydiyya
  • ‘Eqrā

Place Type

settlement

Location

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

Attestation

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

العَقْر6 6

Notes

Moosa's English translation of Barsoum's description says "north" when it should be "east."
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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), p: 18, 70, 92, 226, 443, map: Map II C1, IV.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: 559.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: 517.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: 551.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: 12, 126, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158-159, 161, 162, 166, 172.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:154.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “ʿAqra — ܥܩܪ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/25.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “ʿAqra — ܥܩܪ .”, 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/25.

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Entry Title: ʿAqra — ܥܩܪ

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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