Duhok - ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ
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A town in northern Iraq north of Alqosh and southeast of Zakho.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 36.866667° Long. 43°1
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܰܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܘܨܠ ܘܡܰܬܶܐܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܕܰܗܽܘܟ.” 2
“بلدة في شمالي الموصل يقال لها دهوك” 3
“a town north of Mosul, now called Duhuk. ” 4
Notes
In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description “ܘܡܰܬܶܐܡܰܪ” should read “ܘܡܶܬܶܐܡܰܪ” .
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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: 72, 92, 100, 130, 351, map: Map IV.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 537.
- 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: 505.
- 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 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p: 6, 12, 13, 79, 101, 108, 109, 125, 126, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 140-141, 164, 221, 264, 265, 268, 271.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Duhok
— ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ
” last modified February 6, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/76.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Duhok — ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published February 6, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/76.About this Entry
Entry Title: Duhok — ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ
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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- 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