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Nizip - ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܝܐ

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A town west of the Euphrates between ʿAintab and Birtha.

Names

  • ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܝܐ
  • Nizip
  • ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܳܝܐ1
  • نصيبين الروم2, 5
  • Aintab
  • Byzantine Nisibin3
  • ‘Aintab

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.009788° Long. 37.788277°4

Descriptions

“ونصيبين ايضا قرية على شاطئ الفرات غربي بيرهجك كانت تعرف بنصيبين الروم.” 2
“Nisibin is also the name of a village on the west bank of the Euphrates, west of Biricik, formerly known as the Byzantine Nisibin.” 3

Attestation

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

نصيبين الروم2, 5 5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 562.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: 520.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: 556.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658550
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:334.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Nizip — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܝܐ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/511.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Nizip — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/511.

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Entry Title: Nizip — ܢܨܝܒܝܢ ܕܪ̈ܘܡܝܐ

Additional Credit:

  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • 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

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