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Mecca - [ Syriac Not Available ]

http://syriaca.org/place/2906
A city in Arabia, regarded by Muslims as the holiest city

Names

  • Mecca1
  • مكة3
  • مكّة4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 21.426804° Long. 39.815421°2

Attestations

Attestation of name مكة in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī. مكة3 3 Attestation of name مكّة in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah. مكّة4 4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 86, 220. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29652