Kaysum - ܟܝܫܘܡ

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A town north of Qalʿa Rumayta and west of Samosata.

Names

  • ܟܝܫܘܡ2
  • Kaysum1
  • كيسوم3, 5
  • Kesoun1
  • Kesum4
  • Qala Rumayta
  • Qal‘a Rumayta

Place Type

settlement

Descriptions

ܐܰܬܪܳܐ ܕܒܐܘܚܕܳܢܰܐ ܗܘ ܕܫܰܡܺܝܫܰܛ ܕܐܝܬ ܒܗ ܚܶܣܢܳܐ ܪܰܒܳܐ ܒܶܝܬ ܚܳܠܒ ܠܐܘܪܗܳܝ ܕܚܰܪܝܒ.2
بلدة من اعمال سميساط ذات حصن كبير بين حلب والرها؛ مندثرة.3
an ancient town in the province of Samosata, between Aleppo and Edessa. It also had a citadel.4

Attestation

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

كيسوم3, 5 5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 69, 107, 432, map: Map II B1.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 561.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 519.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 555.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:565.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Kaysum — ܟܝܫܘܡ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/112.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Kaysum — ܟܝܫܘܡ .”, 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/112.

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Entry Title: Kaysum — ܟܝܫܘܡ

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
  • 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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