Arzun - ܐܪܙܘܢ
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“Arzun was the capital of the Armenian districut of Arzanene on the border zone between the Armenian highlands and upper Mesopotamia. Joh. Eph., EH 6.34, records the Roman conquest of the city in the early 580s.” 6
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 37.973889° Long. 41.384722°8
Descriptions
“ܡܕܝܺܢܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ ܕܢܳܦܠܐ ܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܥܪܰܒ ܣܥܶܪܬ ܚܰܪ̈ܒܳܬܗ̇ ܩܝ̈ܡܳܢ” 2
“مدينة كبيرة كانت شمالي غربي سعرت اطلالها ماثلة” 3
“a large city, formerly northwest of Seʿert. Its ruins can still be seen.” 4
“Arzun was the capital of the Armenian districut of Arzanene on the border zone between the Armenian highlands and upper Mesopotamia. Joh. Eph., EH 6.34, records the Roman conquest of the city in the early 580s.” 6
Notes
Barsoum also refers to this place in his description for Philoxenus of Mabbug as "Ghurzān" erroneously.
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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: 33, 218, 310.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 257, 536.
- 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: 231, 504.
- 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: 268, 551.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: I:180.
- 6 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 161.
- 7 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 276; 311; 331; 338, chapter: 3.6.15; 3.6.27; 3.6.34.
- 8 https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Arzen¶ms=37_58_26_N_41_23_05_E_type:fortress_region:TR-56
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arzun
— ܐܪܙܘܢ
” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/285.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Arzun — ܐܪܙܘܢ .”, 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/285.About this Entry
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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
- 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