Adharbayjān - ܐܕܪܒܝܓܐܢ
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A region west of the Caspian Sea, encompassing the modern country of Azerbaijan and the provinces of northwest Iran.
Place Type
region
Descriptions
“ܩܠܺܝܡܐ ܪܘܺܝܚܐ ܕܡܶܬܬܰܚܰܡ ܗܘܳܐ ܒܝܰܡܐ ܕܩܳܙܒܝܢ ܠܡܰܕܢܚܐ ܘܰܒܝܰܡܬܐ ܕܘܰܐܢ ܠܡܰܥܪܒܐ” 2
“اقليم واسع كان حدّه من بحر قزبين مشرقاً الى بحيرة وان مغرباً” 3
“a vast territory whose boundaries extended from the Caspian Sea in the east to Lake Van in the west.” 4
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See Also
"Azerbaijan" in WikipediaWorks 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: 11, 359, 422, map: Map II D1.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 535-536.
- 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: 504.
- 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: 552.
- 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Azerbaijan.
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:155.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Adharbayjān
— ܐܕܪܒܝܓܐܢ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/5.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Adharbayjān — ܐܕܪܒܝܓܐܢ .”, 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/5.About this Entry
Entry Title: Adharbayjān — ܐܕܪܒܝܓܐܢ
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