Mecca - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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A city in Arabia, regarded by Muslims as the holiest city
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 21.426804° Long. 39.815421°2
Attestations
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"Mecca" in WikipediaWorks 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: 86, 220.
- 2 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29652
- 3 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān (Leiden: Brill, 1891)., p: 269.
- 4 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa (Leiden: Brill, 1891)., p: 24.
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Thomas A. Carlson, “Mecca” last modified August 9, 2017, http://syriaca.org/place/2906.
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Thomas A. Carlson, “Mecca.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2017. Entry published August 9, 2017. http://syriaca.org/place/2906.About this Entry
Entry Title: Mecca
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- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- al-Ya`qubi data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- 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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