Ḥirta - ܚܐܪܬܐ
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“Ancient city near the Euphrates to the southeast of present-day al-Najaf.” 1
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 31.88332° Long. 44.44985°2
Descriptions
“ܡܕܺܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܕܪܰܚܝܼܩܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܡܢ ܟܽܘܦܰܗ ܬܠܳܬܐ ܡܝ̣̈ܠܐ ܠܡܰܕܢܚܳܐ ܕܢܰܓܦ.” 3
“مدينة قديمة دائرة كانت على ثلاثة اميال من الكوفة شرقي النجف” 4
“262. Ḥirta” 1
“an ancient city, three miles from Kufa and east of al-Najaf.” 5
“Ancient city near the Euphrates to the southeast of present-day al-Najaf.” 1
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- 1 H. Takahashi, "Ḥirta." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 198-199.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 8, 50, 70, 195, 198–199, 205, 210, 222, 302, 346, 355, 376, 392, 431, 439, map: Map I C3, II C3.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 539.
- 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: 507.
- 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: 554.
- 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Hira.
- 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: 217.
- 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:376.
- 9 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 286; 287, chapter: 3.6.4.
- 10 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 314, chapter: 3.6.18.
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— ܚܐܪܬܐ
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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