Bostra - ܒܘܨܪ

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“City in the Ḥawrān, present-day southern Syria, ca. 120 fan. south of Damascus.” 1

Place Type: settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 32.516667° Long. 36.483333°2

Brief Descriptions

  • “ܡܕܺܝܬܘܽܢܳܝܬܐ ܒܚܰܘܪܢ ܘܡܶܬܐܶܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܒܰܨܪܺܝ ܐܰܣܟܺܝ ܫܶܐܡ” 3
  • “بليدة في حوران ويقال لها بُصرى اسكي شام” 4
  • “112. Bostra” 1
  • “a small town in Ḥawrān, now called Eski Shām.” 5

Attestation

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

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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay, "Bostra." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 86.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.Link to e-GEDSH entry
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 86, 416, 425, map: Map I A2, II A3.Link to Syriaca.org 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: 537.Link to Syriaca.org 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: 505.Link to Syriaca.org 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: 552.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:522.Link to Syriaca.org Bibliographic Record.

Names

  • ܒܘܨܪ3
  • Bostra2
  • ܐܰܣܟܺܝ ܫܶܐܡ3
  • اسكي شام4
  • بُصرى4, 6
  • Boṣra2
  • Buṣra5
  • Eski Shām5

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Bostra — ܒܘܨܪ ” in last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/40.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Bostra — ܒܘܨܪ .” In , edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org, 2016-. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/40.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Bostra — ܒܘܨܪ

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

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