Mayuma - ܡܐܝܘܡܐ
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The port city of Gaza.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 31.530845° Long. 34.433158°5
Descriptions
“ܠܡܺܐܢܳܐ ܚܰܪܝܒܳܐ ܒܩܘܪܒܳܐ ܕܥܰܙܐ ܥܰܠ ܝܰܕ ܝܰܡܳܐ ܡܶܨܥܳܝܐ.” 2
“مينا خرب بقرب غزة على سيف بحر الروم.” 3
“an ancient port on the Mediterranean, near Gazza.” 4
Notes
Not the same conceptual place as Gaza.
Status: published
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Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 144, 155, 174, 211, 220, 231, 331, 368, 448.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 561.
- 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: 519.
- 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: 556.
- 5 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687903
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mayuma
— ܡܐܝܘܡܐ
” last modified January 14, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/456.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mayuma — ܡܐܝܘܡܐ .”, 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/456.About this Entry
Entry Title: Mayuma — ܡܐܝܘܡܐ
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
- 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