TEI/XML   RDF/XML   Text  

Jūsiya - ܓܘܣܝܗ

http://syriaca.org/place/323
A village near Emesa.

Names

  • ܓܘܣܝܗ1
  • Jūsiya
  • جوسية2
  • جُوْسِية4
  • Josya3

Place Type

settlement

Descriptions

“ܟܘܪܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܡܶܢ ܟܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܰܚܡܶܨ. ܕܪܰܚܝܩܐ ܡܶܢܗ̇ ܫܬܳܐ ܦܰܪ̈ܣܚܐ ܠܓܰܒܐ ܕܕܰܪܡܣܘܩ. ܒܶܝܬ ܛܘܪ̈ܝ ܠܶܒܢܳܢ ܘܰܣܢܝܪ ܘܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܩܪܺܝܬܐ ܐܝܺܬܝܗ̇ ܐܶܬܚܰܕܬܰܬ ܒܓܶܒ ܓܘܣܝܗ ܥܰܬܝܩܬܐ.” 1
“كورة كانت من كور حمص على ستة فراسخ منها من جهة دمشق بين جبلي لبنان وسنير؛ وهي في وقتنا قرية استحدثت بجوار مدينة جوسية القديمة” 2
“a district about six leagues from Ḥomṣ, towards Damascus,situated between the mountains of Lebanon and Sinnir. Today it is a small village, recently built near the ruins of ancient Josya.” 3

Attestation

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

جُوْسِية4 4
Status: published  Is this record complete?

See Also

Works Cited

Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.

  • 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 539.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 506.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 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: 554.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:215.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Jūsiya — ܓܘܣܝܗ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/323.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Jūsiya — ܓܘܣܝܗ .”, 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/323.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Jūsiya — ܓܘܣܝܗ

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
  • 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

Copyright and License for Reuse

Except otherwise noted, this page is © 2014.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

This entry incorporates copyrighted material from the following work(s):

used under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Show full citation information...