Qaraqosh - ܒܝܬ ܟܘܕܝܕܐ
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“A sizable town located to the east of Mosul, on the same road along which Barṭelle and Karamlish are located.” 1
Names
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Within Mosul region.7
Descriptions
“ܩܪܝܬܐ ܪܰܒܬܳܐ ܕܒܐܘܚܕܳܢܐ ܕܢܝܺܢܘܶܐ ܠܡܰܕܢܚܐ ܕܡܰܘܨܠ ܘܡܶܬܐܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܩܰܪܰܩܽܘܫ.” 3
“قرية كبيرة من اعمال نينوى شرقي مدينة الموصل يقال لها اليوم قرقوش” 4
“441. Qaraqosh” 1
“a large village in the province of Nineveh, north of Mosul; now called Qaraqosh.” 5
Attestation
Status: published
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Works Cited
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- 1 A. Harrak, "Qaraqosh." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 343-344.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 40, 63, 242, 296, 310, 343–344 (with fig. 103), 464 (fig. 104c), map: Map IV.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.
- 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: 504.
- 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: 552.
- 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Qaraqosh.
- 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: 189, 200, 201, 205, 301.
- 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:375.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Qaraqosh
— ܒܝܬ ܟܘܕܝܕܐ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/262.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Qaraqosh — ܒܝܬ ܟܘܕܝܕܐ .”, 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/262.About this Entry
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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
- 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