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A frontier town on the Khabur River.

Names

  • Magdal1
  • مجدل2
  • مِجْدَل4
  • Majdal3

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.65633° Long. 40.7443°1

Descriptions

“اسم بلدة مندرسة بالخابور الى جانبه كانت تحت رأس عين بمرحلة وذكر ياقوت شاعرا منها معاصرا له.” 2
“an ancient town near the river Khabur, below Rish ʿAyna. Yaqut al-Ḥamawi mentions a contemporary poet from this village.” 3

Attestation

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

مِجْدَل4 4
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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: 344, map: Map I B2.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: 519.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: 555.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: V:67.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Magdal” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/125.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Magdal.”, 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/125.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Magdal

Additional Credit:

  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • 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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