Monastery of Esṭona - ܕܝܪܐ ܕܥܡܘܕܐ
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A monastery near Kallinikos.
Place Type
monastery
Descriptions
“ܒܰܡܕܝܢܬܰ ܩܰܠܘܢܝܩܝ ܥܠ ܣܶܦܬܐ ܣܶܡܳܠܝܬܐ ܕܰܦܪܳܬ ܩܳܡܰܬ ܒܫܘܽܟܠܳܠܗ ܩܰܝܣܰܪܬܐ ܬܶܐܘܕܳܘܪܰܐ ܫܢܰܬ 548 ܘܦܰܬܝܘܗܝ ܕܰܝܪ̈ܝܐ ܫܢܰܬ 635 ܥܰܕܰܪ ܠܥܕܬܐ ܒܚܰܕ ܦܰܛܪܝܰܪܟܐ ܘܰܒܥܶܣܪܐ ܐܶܦܝܣܩܘ̈ܦܐ ܥܕܰܡܐ ܠܰܫܢܰܬ 965 . ” 2
“في مدينة الرقة على الضفة اليسرى من الفرات، تطوعت بعمارته القيصرة ثاودورة 548 + ووسعه الرهبان عام 635 نجد الكنيسة ببطريرك وعشرة اساقفة حتى سنة 965.” 3
“in al-Raqqa, on the west bank of the Euphrates. The Empress Theodora (d. 548) gave money for its construction and in 635 it was enlarged by the monks. By 956, one Patriarch and ten bishops had graduated from it.” 4
Status: published
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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: 347.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 548.
- 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: 512.
- 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: 567.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Monastery of Esṭona
— ܕܝܪܐ ܕܥܡܘܕܐ
” last modified January 14, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/371.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Monastery of Esṭona — ܕܝܪܐ ܕܥܡܘܕܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published January 14, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/371.About this Entry
Entry Title: Monastery of Esṭona — ܕܝܪܐ ܕܥܡܘܕܐ
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- 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
- 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
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