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Pyramos - ܓܝܚܘܢ

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A river which flows near Anazarbos and past Mopsuestia before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.

Names

  • ܓܝܚܘܢ
  • Pyramos1
  • ܓܝܺܚܘܽܢ2
  • ܓܺܝܚܢ2
  • جَيحان3
  • جَيْحان4
  • جيحون3
  • Ceyhan1
  • Giḥun1

Place Type

river

Descriptions

“ܢܰܗܪܰܐ ܗܘ ܕܒܰܡܣܝܺܣܛܐ ܢܳܣܶܟ ܠܩܘܽܒܠܗ ܒܩܺܝܠܺܝܩܝܰܐ ܘܒܰܫܡܗ ܐܶܫܬܰܡܗܰܬ ܡܕܝܢܰܬ ܓܝܺܚܐܰܢ.” 2
“نهر بالمصيصة يصب بازآئها في قيليقية وباسمه سميت مدينة جيحان” 3

Attestation

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

جَيْحان4 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: 60, map: Map I A1.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: 539.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: 506.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:227.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Pyramos — ܓܝܚܘܢ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/159.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Pyramos — ܓܝܚܘܢ .”, 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/159.

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Entry Title: Pyramos — ܓܝܚܘܢ

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
  • 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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