Circesium - ܩܪܩܝܣܝܘܢ
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A city at the confluence of the Euphrates and the Khabur rivers.
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settlement
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Moosa's transcription of these names is non-standard.
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al.,Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), map: Map I B2.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ
ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ
ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag,
1991), p: 558.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم,كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus
Verlag, 1987), p: 518.
- 4 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 557.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي,معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:373.
- 6 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, 7.
- 7 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: 2, 7.
- 8 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, 2, 7.
- 9 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 826.
- 10 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 831.
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Additional Credit:
- Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter
- Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson
- Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter
- Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
- 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 David A. Michelson
- Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson