Arzun - ܐܪܙܘܢ
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Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܺܢܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ ܕܢܳܦܠܐ ܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܥܪܰܒ ܣܥܶܪܬ ܚܰܪ̈ܒܳܬܗ̇ ܩܝ̈ܡܳܢ” 2
“مدينة كبيرة كانت شمالي غربي سعرت اطلالها ماثلة” 3
“a large city, formerly northwest of Seʿert. Its ruins can still be seen.” 4
Notes
Barsoum also refers to this place in his description for Philoxenus of Mabbug as "Ghurzān" erroneously.
Status: published
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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: 33, 218, 310.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 257, 536.
- 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: 231, 504.
- 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: 268, 551.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:180.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arzun
— ܐܪܙܘܢ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/285.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arzun — ܐܪܙܘܢ .”, 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/285.About this Entry
Entry Title: Arzun — ܐܪܙܘܢ
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