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"Town in the Qalamun mountains, Syria, ca. 95 km. northeast of Damascus and less than 20 km. north of Nabk (see Dayr Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashī), often mentioned as a caravan station between Ḥimṣ and Damascus."1

Names

  • Qara2, 3, 6, 7
  • قارة5

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 34.16826385° Long. 36.75343335°4
  • Coordinates (alternate):
    • Lat. 34.1567755000° Long. 36.7444825000°6

Attestation

Attestation of name قارة in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. قارة5 5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay, Qara, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 342-343. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 40, 286, 342–343 (with fig. 101, 102), 425map: Map II A2, V. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Qara