Balad - ܒܠܕ
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“Balad, Assyrian Balaṭ, Syriac and Arabic Balad or Balaṭ, and modern Aski Mosul (Turkish for ‘Old Mosul’) are names referring to a town located some 40 km. northwest of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris.” 1
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 36.514152° Long. 42.726566°8
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܢܬܳܐ ܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܕܥܠ ܕܶܩܠܰܬ ܠܡܰܥܪܒܐ ܠܥܶܠ ܡܶܢ ܡܰܘܨܠ ܕܐܺܝܬ ܒܰܝܢܳܬܗܝܢ ܫܰܒܥܐ ܦܪ̈ܣܚܝܢ ܚܰܪܝ̣ܒܐ.” 3
“مدينة قديمة على دجلة من غربيها فوق الموصل بينهما سبع فراسخ، خربت في المئة الرابعة عشرة ويقال لاطلالها اسكي موصل” 4
“70. Balad” 1
“an ancient town above Mosul on the western bank of the Tigris, ruined in the fourteenth century. It is now called Eski Mosul.” 5
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Works Cited
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- 1 A. Harrak, "Balad." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 52-53.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 9, 13, 52–53, 71, 218, 273, 300, 370, map: Map I C1, II C1, IV.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 537.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Balad.
- 7 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p: 44, 49.
- 8 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874379
- 9 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:570.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Balad
— ܒܠܕ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/42.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Balad — ܒܠܕ .”, 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/42.About this Entry
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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
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- 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