Tigris - ܕܩܠܬ

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The eastern major river of Mesopotamia, flowing from SE Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

Names

  • ܕܩܠܬ
  • Tigris1, 4, 5
  • ܕܶܩܠܰܬ2
  • دجلة3, 6

Place Type

river

Attestation

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

دجلة3, 6 6
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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: 10, 18, 20, 21, 30, 50–51, 52, 71, 72, 215, 242, 244, 262, 294, 300, 303, 308, 365, 395, 415, 419, map: Map I C2, II C2, III, IV.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: 536.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: 504.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: 551.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Tigris.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:502.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tigris — ܕܩܠܬ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/202.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tigris — ܕܩܠܬ .”, 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/202.

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Entry Title: Tigris — ܕܩܠܬ

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  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
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  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz

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