Sergiopolis - ܪܨܦܐ
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A town southwest of Kallinikos.
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 35.616667° Long. 38.75°1
Descriptions
A town southwest of Kallinikos.
“The city of Rusafa in the Syrian desert became known as Sergiopolis in Late Antiquity because of the martyr Sergius. Joh. Eph., EH 6.4 refers to it under its former name Rusafa.” 4
Attestation
Notes
GEDSH Map 2 omits dot under the s in the name "Resafa."
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), map: Map I B2, II B2.
- 2 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Rusafa.
- 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:54.
- 4 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 1360-1361.
- 5 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 285, chapter: 3.6.4.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sergiopolis.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2024. Entry published February 16, 2024. http://syriaca.org/place/165.About this Entry
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- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
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- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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