Amāsiyya - ܐܡܐܣܝܐ

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The capital of the province Helenopontus, Amaseia was the see of a metropolitan and an important center in Late Antique Asia Minor.5

Names

  • ܐܡܐܣܝܐ
  • Amāsiyya
  • ܐܡܣܝܐ6
  • ܐܰܡܰܐܣܝܰܐ1
  • اماسية2
  • Amaseia5
  • Amasia
  • Amasya3

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 40.66680835° Long. 35.82794385°4

Descriptions

ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܥܠ ܣܦܬ ܢܰܗܪܐ ܕܝܶܫܺܝܠ ܐܺܝܪܡܰܐܩ ܘܰܒܬܰܝܡܢܗ̇ ܕܨܰܐܡܨܘܽܢ ܡܪܰܕܶܐ 50 ܡܝ̈ܠܐ.1
مدينة على ضفة نهر يشيل ايرماق على مسافة 50 ميلاً من جنوبي سمسون2
a town fifty miles south of Samsun, on the bank of Yeşil Irmak.3
The capital of the province Helenopontus, Amaseia was the see of a metropolitan and an important center in Late Antique Asia Minor.5

Notes

In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description ܡܪܰܕܶܐ should read ܡܰܪܕܶܐ.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 536.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 504.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 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: 551.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857018
  • 5 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 74.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 51; 98, chapter: 3.1.42; 3.2.31.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., “Amāsiyya — ܐܡܐܣܝܐ ” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/292.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Amāsiyya — ܐܡܐܣܝܐ .”, 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/292.

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Entry Title: Amāsiyya — ܐܡܐܣܝܐ

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

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