Amida - ܐܡܝܕ

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City in upper Mesopotamia.1

Names

  • ܐܡܝܕ
  • Amida2, 6
  • ܐܳܡܝ̣ܕ3
  • ܕܝܰܐܪܒܟܶܪ3
  • آمد4, 8
  • ديار بكر4
  • Amid2, 5
  • Āmid7
  • Diyarbakir5
  • Diyārbakr7
  • Diyarbakır2
  • Omid2

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.981944° Long. 40.210556°2

Descriptions

ܡܕܺܝܢܬܐ ܚܰܣܝ̣ܢܬܐ ܕܕܶܩܠܰܬ ܚܳܕܰܪ ܠܣܘܓܐܗ̇.3
مدينة قديمة حصينة دجلة محيطة باكثرها4
32. Amid1
an ancient fortified city, virtually surrounded by the Tigris.5

Attestation

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

آمد4, 8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi, "Amid." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 18-21.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 4, 9, 18–20 (with fig. 5), 46, 60, 69, 92, 126, 139, 141, 143, 145, 163, 164–165, 178, 182, 183, 201, 212, 217, 224, 226, 267–268, 280, 283, 308, 343, 367, 370, 375, 379, 397, 406, 408, 418, 426, 429, 435, 438, 443, 444, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 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: 551.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Amida.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 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: 4, 11, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54-60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 85, 88, 89, 91, 93, 95, 102, 103, 106, 129, 130, 190, 195, 197, 204, 210, 213, 226, 236, 257, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 278, 313, 316, 332, 348, 351, 352, 353, 357, 359.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:562.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Amida — ܐܡܝܕ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/8.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Amida — ܐܡܝܕ .”, 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/8.

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Entry Title: Amida — ܐܡܝܕ

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  • 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
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