Kokhe - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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“Also known as Veh-Ardashir or New Seleucia. Located on the Tigris, south of modern Baghdad, the name Kokhe is Aramaic in origin.”1
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- 1 M. C. Cassis,Kokhe,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 244.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al.,Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 70, 171, 244, 365, 415.
- 3 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Kokhe.
- 4 Roger Bagnall et al.,Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894178.
- 5 Ian Mladjov,Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii,
map 1–14, map: 1, 8.
- 6 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 829.
- 7 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 834.
- 8 Ehsan Yarshater, ed.,Encyclopaedia Iranica (London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), entry: BEH-ARDAŠĪR.
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