Shura - ܫܘܪܐ
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A town on the Euphrates west of Kallinikos.
Place Type
settlement
Location
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A town on the Euphrates west of Kallinikos.
“Shura was a fortress town in the province of Syria Euphratensis west of Callinicum.” 3
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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.
- 2 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668376
- 3 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 1429.
- 4 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 23; 328, chapter: 3.1.19; 3.6.26.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Shura.”, 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/185.About this Entry
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- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo
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