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Ḥiṣn Manṣūr - ܚܣܢ ܡܢܨܘܪ

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A city north of Qalʿa Rumayta and southwest of Melitene.

Names

  • ܚܣܢ ܡܢܨܘܪ
  • Ḥiṣn Manṣūr4
  • ܚܰܣܰܢ ܡܰܢܨܘܪ2
  • حصن منصور3, 5
  • Adıyaman1
  • Hiṣn Manṣūr1
  • Parrin1
  • Perrhe1
  • Qala Rumayta
  • Qal‘a Rumayta

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.75972° Long. 38.27875°1

Descriptions

“ܡܕܝܰܢܬܐ ܗܝ ܕܰܒܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܫܰܡܝܫܰܛ ܠܡܰܥܪܒܳܐ ܕܰܦܪܳܬ ܕܡܶܬܶܐܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܬܘܒ ܐܰܕܺܝܰܐܡܰܐܢ.” 2
“بلدة شمالي سميساط في غربي الفرات يقال لها ايضاً اديمان” 3
“a town north of Samosata on the west bank of the Euphrates; also called Adyaman.” 4

Attestation

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

حصن منصور3, 5 5

Notes

In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description “ܡܕܝܰܢܬܐ” should read “ܡܕܺܝܢܬܐ” .
Same location but not the same conceptual place as http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658574.
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Works Cited

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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: 60, 163, 178, 367, map: Map I B1, II B1, III.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 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.
  • 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: 507.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 554.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:306.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ḥiṣn Manṣūr — ܚܣܢ ܡܢܨܘܪ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/94.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ḥiṣn Manṣūr — ܚܣܢ ܡܢܨܘܪ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/94.

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Entry Title: Ḥiṣn Manṣūr — ܚܣܢ ܡܢܨܘܪ

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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