Emesa - ܚܡܨ

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City in Syria.1

Names

  • ܚܡܨ
  • Emesa2, 6
  • ܚܡܶܨ3
  • حمص4
  • حِمْص7
  • Ḥimṣ2
  • Ḥomṣ5
  • Homs6

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.730833° Long. 36.709444°2

Descriptions

259. Ḥimṣ1

Attestation

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

حِمْص7 7
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi, "Ḥimṣ." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 196-197.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 5, 42 (fig. 15), 59, 62, 77, 87, 103, 110, 111, 117, 130, 155, 163, 178, 196–197, 208, 234, 270, 313, 342–343, 353, 360, 389, 393, 425, map: Map I B2, II A2, V.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 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.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 507.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 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: 553.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Homs, Emesa.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:347.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Emesa — ܚܡܨ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/215.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Emesa — ܚܡܨ .”, 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/215.

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Entry Title: Emesa — ܚܡܨ

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  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
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  • 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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