Tella - ܬܠܐ

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A town east of Edessa and west of Mardin.

Names

  • ܬܠܐ2, 7
  • Tella1, 4
  • ܘܶܝܪܰܐܢܫܰܗܝܪ2
  • ܡܕܝܢܬܐ8
  • ܬܶܠ ܡܰܘܙܠܰܬ2
  • تلا3
  • تل مَوْزَن6
  • تلّ موزلث3
  • تلّ موزن3
  • ويران شهر3
  • Constantina1
  • Mawzan4
  • Tell Mawzalt4
  • Viransehir5
  • Wayran Shahr4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 37.233333° Long. 39.766666°1

Descriptions

ܡܕܝܺܢܬܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܡܫܰܟܠܠܬܐ ܕܒܶܝܬ ܡܰܪܕܝܢ ܠܐܘܪܗܳܝ ܡܰܪܕܶܐ ܬܪܶܝܢ ܡܰܫ̈ܩܠܝܢ ܡܶܢ ܩܰܕܡܳܝܬܐ ܘܝܰܘܡܳܢ ܡܕܝܢܬܽܘܢܳܝܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܕܡܶܬܶܐܡܰܪ ܠܗ̇ ܘܶܝܪܰܐܢܫܰܗܝܪ.2
كانت مدينة عامرة بين ماردين والرها مسافة مرحلتين عن الاولى. وهي اليوم بليدة يقال لها ويران شهر3
A town east of Edessa and west of Mardin.
once a flourishing town between Mardin and Edessa, about two leagues from Mardin. Today it is a small village called Wayran Shahr.4

Attestation

Attestation of name تل مَوْزَن in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. تل مَوْزَن6 6

Notes

Moosa's transcription "Wayran Shahr" should be "Viranşehir".
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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: 114, 267, 325, 419, 431, 447, 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: 537-538.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: 505.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: 559.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 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: 76.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:52.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 50; 276; 308; 309; 313; 238, chapter: 3.1.41; 3.6.13; 3.6.17; 3.6.26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 329, chapter: 3.6.26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tella — ܬܠܐ ” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/200.

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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tella — ܬܠܐ .”, 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/200.

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Entry Title: Tella — ܬܠܐ

Additional Credit:

  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
  • 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 David A. Michelson
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
  • Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo

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